Re: The List Standard
Ted Hilts wrote in Article <[🔎] 461AF001.9020300@telus.net> posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
>
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html
>
> This helps a lot but I have a few issues with a couple of the statements.
>
> 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.
I'm not sure what exactly that means, it doesn't make sense.
> 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 from that who said what or even
> the initial subject content. Not every one has threads. In a thread before
> yours this statement was made: ' AFAIK Thunderbird can thread even if the
> subject is changed. (It uses the 'In-Reply-To:' header)"
If your mailer breaks threads, you shouldn't use it at all. Period.
There's no excuse for any mailer or newsgroup reader to not support threads
at this point. Even Outlook gets this right barring it's user torquing it
deliberately.
> This person seems to imply that normally the subject is the key to
> establishing the descending threads. And if Thunderbird for example
> utilizes the REPLY TO header then that is at odds with what you seem to be
> saying in this guideline. So I am confused on this matter.
Reply To is not set. You should be using Reply to List instead of Reply or
Reply to All when replying.
> Also my original subject had [debian-user] as the prefix yet Thunderbird
> accepted Re: The list Standard.
Subject prefixes aren't done on this list.
> Second: Also, when one person removes content they think is irrelevant but
> the original author might think otherwise then how does one find that
> original information?
You can always pull it from the original message or the archives.
> 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.
Only if you failed English. Top posting is not the norm except among those
who learned to read from Microsoft Outlook.
> Anyway, I have in this email not used the REPLY TO key and addressed my
> response to you using the original subject in order to see what actually
> happens.
Looks like you started a new thread.
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