At 10:29 PM 10/13/2002 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Again, news is not email, they are very different beasts, though the >message is conveyed in a similar fashion. But since you insist, I refer you >to the FAQ about quoting style in newsgroups from news.newusers.questions: > > http://web.presby.edu/~nnqadmin/nnq/nquote.html > http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.3
David, you focus on FAQs that agree with you. Yeah, and if everyone I know voted for Gore, that proves that nobody really voted for Bush and the votes were fraudulent, no? Learn some logic! Besides, the FAQs carry no automatic weight if not referenced at the http://www.plkr.org/index.pl/contact and http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo pages. The problem isn't with the headers, it's with the careless users >ignoring the fact that Replying to a message, removing anything relevant, >and using it as a template for a new message on a completely unrelated >subject is rude and annoying, not to mention incorrect. > > Here's a simple rule: If you have nothing to add to an existing >message, do not hit reply. Simple logic. I notice that you never simply answer the question, David. Much later in the message, inline with my suggestions for a FAQ, you corrected one by pointing me at the RFC2822. Perhaps you could learn a bit more about communication and point that out in your responses rather than just saying "It's rude and annoying". For lurkers, what David is apparently abjectly incapable of expressing is that email includes a "References" header that lists previous message IDs (Header "Message-Id") such that the emails may be "threaded". Consequently, hitting "Reply" will automatically chain your message into the thread by copying the previous "References" (if any) and adding the message ID to which you are responding, regardless of what you do to the subject or other headers. I generally don't see "threaded" email views (i.e. even if they were available to me, I never looked at them) and I presume more people are like me than like David... certainly his recent battles over this supports my surmise... so this is an important and new relevation to quite possibly more than a few of us. David, no matter how often and repeatedly you are rude and dogmatic to those not following your standards, it won't convey the reasons and change their behavior nearly as quickly as simply stating the above would. Certainly your bizarre suggestion that people would figure this out by reading previous posts suggests a surreal disconnect from reality... if you don't KNOW about the threading problem, how on earth would you discern the connection to "reply" from reading the archives on Plucker?!? Tony McNamara _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
