Re: [debian-user] The List Standard
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600
> Ted Hilts <thilts33@telus.net> 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.
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