What is a better way I can give context (and credit) when I am responding to a message, without implying that I expect a reply from the original author?
I've been a Usenet user since 1988, and I've never heard of the convention of "quoting implies request for reply". Replies from the original author are always welcome, but I don't necessarily expect them. Maybe I just missed the memo.... On the receiving side, if I didn't want to respond to a Usenet message, I just didn't. If I wasn't interested in a thread anymore, I just stopped reading it, or put it in my "kill" file. I read the Cygwin mailing list using the gmane.org newsfeed, too. But I was told that replying via my newsreader (Outlook Newsreader) messes up the e'mail threading. So now I subscribe to the digest as well, so that I can reply to the SMTP e'mail instead of replying to the gmane NNTP post. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple