It is very difficult to tell what you wrote and what you are responding
to when you don't have quote attributes for the message you are
responding to
On 2009/01/30 1:59 AM Witstert wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Barker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 29 January 2009 17:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [users] [Deleting useful messages]
At 14:23 29/01/2009 -0000, Witstert Noname wrote:
For example, in my latest download of emails (headers only) there
were several emails for each subject ...
There are 2500 people on this list. It would hardly be surprising if
several people responded to a message on a particular subject - or
even to earlier replies to it. These could all be independent
replies; indeed, if they arrive at similar times, they are likely to
be so. You will see their contents only if you read them all.
I'm assuming the following is your response
Excellent reasons for setting up a proper website-based forum
Actually, it is a good reason to download all the messages and view them
in threaded mode. Or, you could view this list as a newgroup through Gmane.
There are already two website help forums for OO.o for those people who
prefer forums to mailing lists or newsgroups.
... so before downloading the content I deleted what I hope is the
excess being earlier timed (received) emails with the same subject headers.
You have assumed that earlier responses are less valuable than those
from people who were less prompt in replying. I see no reason to
believe that this would be the case. Indeed, the opposite might be true.
Is this your response?
Not correct. I am hoping that the earlier timed responses will be reflected
on the latest response.
Not necessarily. There are often several separate responses to the
original question that do not have any of the other responses. If you
download them all or view in a newgroup you can see all of them. Also in
a multiple post intechange a post should only contain the relevant
material being replied to. The rest should be clipped.
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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -
Edgard Varese
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