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* Bryen
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:29 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
I, personally, like top posting.
So do I, and I find myself taking a bit longer to respond because of bottom posting. But I can see it has its benefits.
:^)
Reply ONLY to the list.
This actually is something of a challenge. Many of us by force of habit click "reply" and I keep having to stop myself before sending and re-doing the whole thing.
but, relative to the email proccess, you are NEW, as "in the beginning" the expected action was *normal*.
On other mailing lists, the system always changes the "reply-to" header to the actual mailing list. So when we click "reply", it won't reply directly to the person instead of the list. Can't we make that change here?
Not open for discussion/change. Has been debated ad infinitum here, see the archives.
It would probably make many lives easier. I know manmail does this because I've configured it as such to do so in the past.
explained above.
Trim down the quoted portion of the e-mail you are replying to.
But doesn't this sort of defeat the purpose of bottom posting?
No, if you are current (you *are* reading the list?) there is no need to continually *re-read* *old* context. The idea is to *only* quote enough to put your answers into context.
In effect, when we're trimming, we're creating a new thread.
no
If the purpose of bottom posting is to give readers a chance to catch up on the conversation as a whole if they've stepped in late in the game, then they've missed the topic in its entirety when we clip.
no, it is not. That is why the archives exist.
I just joined this list this week (and I love this list so far...) but there were ongoing conversations when I joined, and people trimmed down as suggested. Reading those posts, I had the feeling there was more to it than what I was reading in front of me.
again, if you were *current* this would not be a problem. Why impose on readers who are "up-do-date" for *late-comers*?
Not to mention, clearly the topic of this conversation is now different from the original topic of this conversation. How are we supposed to handle that? Retitle the subject?
yes, see the Subject: of this post.
BUT, if the context changes drastically into another direction or
topic (and this one has but...) a *new* thread/subject *should* be
started. Which means a brand new message, not a reply to an existing
message.
ex. All posts (except from particular *broken* clients) contain
"Message-ID:"s and replies "References:" and "In-Reply-To:" headers
which tie (thread) messages together. Your post to which I am
replying contains:
Message-Id: <1192287659.21913.38.camel@desktop.bryen.info>
In-Reply-To: <4710C832.6030108@swbell.net>
References: <8583d0970710110357v270751e5i2d250226549e795a@mail.gmail.com>
<1192102779.14080.102.camel@acme.pacific>
<8583d0970710111657v6b78ea8cx3285867803c7b9a8@mail.gmail.com>
<200710120407.58100.jervine@novell.com>
<8583d0970710120140h63fe21a1ofad3277bbe2f5ff8@mail.gmail.com>
Just another newbie feeling my way around. :-)
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