> 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 chain of information because all I get when I read your email is to > > see your one extraction and I don't know
On 09.04.07 21:10, David E. Fox wrote: > Ted - please wrap your lines at < 72 characters. It'll make your posts > easier to read and reply to. I wonder why does Thunderbird not to wrap lined, if is uses format=flowed messages (which it does). It's probably bug in thunderbird, RFC 2646 (section 4.1) tells that text should be wrapped... (i re-wrapped Ted's text myself) > Most (sane) mailers track by something called Reference Threading - so > that a subject with the added text [debian-user] will still be able to > be seen as part of the thread. If you are talking about merging messages with same subject (with additional Re:) to one thread, I have bad experience with it so I've turned this off. > > Third: Altering the original content or injecting statements adds more > > confusion than it saves especially if a lot of people are in > > disagreement with one another. > > Shouldn't happen much. For threads where there is a lot of disagreement > (see the subjects "sponge burning" for instance) people haven't been > altering the original content. That would be disastrous, and really > open one up for a flame fest ;(. I agree with this. Stripping irelevant parts of original content is OK and case much less of confusion than reading long pages of irelevant text and searching for relevant parts there. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. On the other hand, you have different fingers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
