On Wed, Oct 09, 2002, Kurtis D. Rader wrote: > One of the problems with Lotus Notes is that it does not include a > in-reply-to or references header.
Actually, I have never thought about that problem, since mutt at least makes an effort to figure out what thread it belongs to. The major problem is users that use an existing message as a template for a new message and their mail client does indeed include the in-reply-to and/or references header. That really screws up the threading. > encourage people to "top post" (i.e., put their reply at the > top of the quoted material, encourages people to include the entire > original message rather than trimming it to just the portion being > responded to, etc. There is no excuse for top posting and including the entire original message (they kind of go hand in hand). As far as I know, no mail client makes the quoted material read-only, i.e. you can edit it manually. Sure, it is a major PITA to have to do that (especially with Lotus Notes), but you waste everyone's time if you don't do it. I have worked for clients that used Lotus Notes and for internal messages I usually used the same "broken" way of sending messages as everyone else at the company (i.e. top post, include the entire original message, etc.), but for external messages I spent some time on fixing the formatting to not look bad. /Mike _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
