Re: Root posting
* Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-23 07:45]: Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (e.g. posting to the root of the list, instead of in the relevant thread)? Some mail clients support a digest mode which lets you follow up to individual messages in-thread (at least gnus does). In fact, procmail is great for that. You can pipe your digests to 'formail +1 -dsmailboxname' and it'll split 'em up into individual messages, which makes for ease of reading and/or replying to individual messages. -- Joshua You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman. -- Kirk to Yeoman Rand, The Enemy Within, stardate unknown ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Root posting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: |Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | |The ongoing debate about top posting vs. bottom/random posting has |sparked a somewhat related question in me: what about root posting |(e.g. posting to the root of the list, instead of in the relevant thread)? | | |Some mail clients support a digest mode which lets you follow up to |individual messages in-thread (at least gnus does). If your mail |client does not support that, it probably makes the most sense to |followup with a reasonable subject (perhaps even one cut'n'pasted from |the bit you are interested in), stripping off the parts not relevant |to your message. | |- P I'm running Mozilla mail, and it doesn't seem to be able to reply to certain parts of a digest message. This could be just a setup issue, I'll look into it. Anyways, it seems people doesn't think it's as big of a deal as I was concerned they might, so I guess I can just post away. :-) - -Henrik W Lund -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAYLyQnzC5lcw9P3IRAu0PAJ0Q/HRkU+XO/LlgVNM0TSJXu0qJ9ACeMz4c d+B5xc2R+0C+VK2R0X3LSxg= =LKcP -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Root posting
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:47:56PM +0100, Henrik W Lund wrote: The ongoing debate about top posting vs. bottom/random posting has sparked a somewhat related question in me: what about root posting (e.g. posting to the root of the list, instead of in the relevant thread)? Please please *please* don't lets have lots of examples of how and why this is a bad thing ala greg lehey's posts above g For someone like me, who is on digest (and not planning to go off it soon. The digests clutter my mailbox enough as it is), it is often a matter og being reluctant to post to an ongoing thread, knowing that my email will fall out of the thread context. I noticed someone top-posting a while ago to this list whilst including the complete digest mail below his/her top-post - 70k or so(?). I don't see why you can't just strip out the part of the digest that's relevant to you and reply to it in-line, adding a suitable subject. It's been a while since I subscribed to a digest list, but I wouldn't be surprised if mutt actually lets you reply _only_ to an individual mail in a digest mail, allowing you to maintain threading. Depends how the digest is formatted I suppose. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Root posting
Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ongoing debate about top posting vs. bottom/random posting has sparked a somewhat related question in me: what about root posting (e.g. posting to the root of the list, instead of in the relevant thread)? Some mail clients support a digest mode which lets you follow up to individual messages in-thread (at least gnus does). If your mail client does not support that, it probably makes the most sense to followup with a reasonable subject (perhaps even one cut'n'pasted from the bit you are interested in), stripping off the parts not relevant to your message. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ First, we kill all the spammers The Usenet Bard, Twice-forwarded tales ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
