Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:37:29 +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@gulfsat.mg wrote: noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. Yep. Pan (a nntp newsreader) has such

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:30:27 + (UTC) s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: ... slrn beats 'em all. Bravo, we can subscribe to a mailing list and read it with a newsreader. Yay. Real newsreaders and mail user agents don't fsck up the quoting (above fixed manually :-). Or use Sylpheed,

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4c774786.8010...@familyross.net, Kevin Ross wrote: On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting style. Joel Spolsky does. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html In all fairness, he was

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/27/2010 01:16 AM, Celejar wrote: Or use Sylpheed, where you can subscribe to a newsgroup and read it with an MUA ... ... or use Icedove/Thunderbird for reading not only news://, but RSS as well as mail. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 01:30:27AM +, s. keeling wrote: slrn beats 'em all. Bravo, we can subscribe to a mailing list and read it with a newsreader. Yay. Real newsreaders and mail user agents don't fsck up the quoting (above fixed manually :-). I've used slrn for years for newsgroups

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey! On 08/25/2010 10:52 AM, Gary Roach wrote: snippy I sent this email to the chromium-discuss mailing list, as there doesn't seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and how to properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're all using the crappy Gmail MUA):

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. Yep. Pan (a nntp newsreader) has such option. So does Claws-mail. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat:

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. Yep. Pan (a nntp newsreader) has such option. So does Claws-mail. As does

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. Yep. Pan (a nntp

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:30:21PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [...] seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and how to properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're all using the crappy Gmail MUA): It's not that bad; I've actually grown fond of it and I'm a

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting style. Joel Spolsky does. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Gary Roach
Hi; This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not sure how it should really be done. I searched for about a half hour on google and

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi Have you read http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ ? On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 17:52, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: If I reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org , how does my reply get included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my responsibility to cut and

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:52:33 -0400 (EDT), Gary Roach wrote: This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not sure how it should

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread John Hasler
Gary Roach writes: If I reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org , how does my reply get included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. It's up to you. decent MUAs provide help with quoting but you must edit down included

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: (...) If I reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org , how does my reply get included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. I guess you'll have to manually delete the

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:58:07 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: (...) If I reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org , how does my reply get included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my responsibility to cut and paste

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:39 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:58:07 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: (...) If I reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org , how does my reply get included with the correct snippets of other

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:39 -0400 Christopher Judd j...@wadsworth.org wrote: ... In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then Sylpheed, too. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/25/2010 10:52 AM, Gary Roach wrote: This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not sure how it should really be done. I searched