Bryen wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:29 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
I, personally, like top posting. If, for some reason, my memory is so poor that I can't remember what the thread is about I can always scroll down to find out.
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.
A couple other things you might need to know to save you from getting roasted over the flames:
Reply ONLY to the list. NEVER to the person [ unless requested to do so ]. I use Firefox and there is a rather hard to find extension called "Reply to List". You can Google for it. Follow the instructions on the site to get it set up. Otherwise use "Reply to All" and remove the extra address's
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. 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? 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.
There is no easy answer to this dilemma of a reply to list or reply to emailer. Every list needs to come to its own conclusion and this one has it so that a reply goes to the sender only. Other lists I'm on that have a reply to list as the default are bombarded with requests to change it to a reply to sender. A very nice compromise is to read this list on gmane.org with a news reader (like Thunderbird). In this case, the reply is to the "newsgroup", which gets filtered to the mailing list. I highly recommend it. http://www.gmane.org -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org