Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
2009/6/30 : > Jerry McAllister wrote: >> > See subject >> It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to >> have to go back to the subject line like this. >> > See subject >> is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive. > > To each his own, I guess. In the case of a one-liner question > which is adequately asked in the Subject, some of us find it a bit > annoying to see the same question repeated as the only body line. > >> It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader >> that does not show the subject in the included text for a response. > > I'd expect it to have been reused -- prepended with Re: if it didn't > already start that way -- as the Subject: of the reply. Assuming you hit Reply to every question like that Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
Jerry McAllister wrote: > > See subject > It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to > have to go back to the subject line like this. > > See subject > is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive. To each his own, I guess. In the case of a one-liner question which is adequately asked in the Subject, some of us find it a bit annoying to see the same question repeated as the only body line. > It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader > that does not show the subject in the included text for a response. I'd expect it to have been reused -- prepended with Re: if it didn't already start that way -- as the Subject: of the reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:31:49AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 07:39:24AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > > See subject > > is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive. > It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader > that does not show the subject in the included text for a response. which mail reader do you have in mind? I use mail and mutt, and I'm happy with simple questions in subject. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
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Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 07:39:24AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > See subject It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to have to go back to the subject line like this. > See subject is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive. It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader that does not show the subject in the included text for a response. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:39:24 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" wrote: > See subject Please don't do that. Subject is for a short summary, and in this case the summary is so short that the question may be misunderstood. * Do you want to append more information to an _existing_ PR? * Do you want to _add_ a new PR to the database? In the first case, you can just email `bug-follo...@freebsd.org' using a subject of the form: Re: docs/100200: summary of the PR here In the second case, see the `Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports' article at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
You could to use: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html or http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html Regards, Sylvio Cesar 2009/6/29 Aryeh M. Friedman : > See subject > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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