On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 21:54 -0600, Jim Engle wrote: > When > I replied to your message, I used evolution and reply to sender, however > I changed the subject line, trying to follow the instructions that > evolution-list includes at the beginning of each message. This time I > used > Ctrl+L and did not change the subject line. I hope it works better for > you, Milan.
I'm afraid it didn't, for several reasons. Since you say you are new to mailing lists, allow me to explain a few things: 1) You replied to a digest. Never, *never* do this. Your reply included the entire text of all the messages in the digest, even ones completely unrelated to your thread. If you absolutely must use digests, you can reply to an individual message by right-clicking within the message body. However it's really much better just to avoid digests altogether, as they have no advantages in modern systems (they still exist as a throwback to the days of modems and UUCP). Note that changing the subject line is not the way to deal with this. 2) You top-posted your reply, i.e. your comments are in front of the the material you are quoting. Although this is common practice in the business world (due to the pernicious influence of Outlook), it's generally frowned on in technical mailing lists including this one. You should insert comments after the specific text you want to comment on. 3) In that same vein, don't quote a lot of stuff that you aren't commenting on, i.e. be selective. There's no need to quote the entire message you reply to (even without using digests). That's what the list archive is for, and what threading exists to support. Welcome to the list :-) poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
