Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600 Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automatically added to the descending list. But have you not in your own email broken the

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-11 Thread s. keeling
Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [much generally good info snipped] that virtually everybody who posts to the list is also subscribed to the list, so that you don't normally need to cc. them. Not true. Anyone or anything can post to the list. Agreed that additional Cc:'s (unless

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-11 Thread s. keeling
Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris Lale wrote: David E. Fox wrote: [...] Normally, one should just reply-to list, and it's considered bad form to mail the poster directly, unless asked to do so. In Thunderbird (Icedove), either click on Reply All, change

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not every one has threads. In a thread before yours this statement was made: AFAIK Thunderbird can thread even if the subject is changed. (It uses the 'In-Reply-To:' header) This person seems to imply that normally the subject is the key

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:10:42PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600 Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automatically added to

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Lale
Ted Hilts wrote: [...] Not every one has threads. You say that you are using Thunderbird (Icedove). You can use the View menu to view your mail in threaded format: View - Sort by - Threaded [...] -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Lale
David E. Fox wrote: [...] Normally, one should just reply-to list, and it's considered bad form to mail the poster directly, unless asked to do so. In Thunderbird (Icedove), either click on Reply All, change debian-user@lists.debian.org from Cc: to To: and delete any other Cc: or To: lines;

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-10 Thread Ted Hilts
Chris Lale wrote: David E. Fox wrote: [...] Normally, one should just reply-to list, and it's considered bad form to mail the poster directly, unless asked to do so. In Thunderbird (Icedove), either click on Reply All, change debian-user@lists.debian.org from Cc: to To: and delete

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-10 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: Even Outlook can thread (not sure what happens if subject gets changed though). It's not true threading, though - it's lumping by subject line. At least, that's what it did when I used it a few years ago - maybe the latest

[debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Ted Hilts
My browser for mail is Thunderbird and Seamonkey I use for browsing. Thunderbird runs with threads beginning with the first issue ins the subject line and then all successive emails related are tied together in a descending fashion. I take this to mean that one can first see the first issue

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My browser for mail is Thunderbird and Seamonkey I use for browsing. Thunderbird runs with threads beginning with the first issue ins the subject line and then all successive emails related are tied together in a descending fashion. I take this to mean

[debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Ted Hilts
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html This helps a lot but I have a few issues with a couple of the statements. First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my reply back to the list and it will be

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:01:37PM -0600, Ted Hilts wrote: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html This helps a lot but I have a few issues with a couple of the statements. First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600 Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automatically added to the descending list. But have you not in your own email broken the