Re: Mailing list protocol
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:39 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:58:07 Camaleón wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> > If I reply to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> , how does my reply get
>> > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my
>> > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections.
>>
>> I guess you'll have to manually delete the extra quoting, at least
>> until someone develops an intelligent MUA/newsreader to get this job
>> done automagically (will require mind-reading capability) :-)
>>
>>
> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first
> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted.
> Unfortunately, you apparently can't multi-select using the Control key.
Yep. "Pan" (a nntp newsreader) has such option.
What cannot do (nowadays) is determining "what" excerpts to select for
replying to, that's the user's job. That was my point :-)
I always keep the whole text when replying -for getting the big picture-
to provide an accurate answer and then remove the parts I am not
answering to.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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