Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hopefully this will now not break the threading.
I looked at your original reply and I'm not sure how it broke anything;
I saw the usual References: line with valid information in the message
header, and I understand that's how threaded message readers build their
threads. It seems intact to me (in fact the References: line looked
identical to your reply here)....
> On Friday 16 August 2013 17:10:33 David Guntner wrote:
>> Regardless of those preferences, on a mailing list where you don't know
>> what mail program someone reading is going to be using, it's always a
>> bad idea to use HTML in posting a message. Sure, at this point the
>> majority of mail readers can render HTML. But ALL mail readers (even
>> the ones that understand HTML) can render plain text. Not to mention
>> the size increase of messages written using HTML, but that's another
>> subject....
>>
>> I hope this (rather lengthy reply, sorry about that :-) ) gives you a
>> bit better insight into the matter. :-)
>
> Having missed Ethan's OP, you have missed the main point of peoples'
> complaints. Ethan is refusing advice on how to set Thunderbird to reply, and
> is doing a most peculiar and unintelligible method of his own, which also
> breaks threading.
>
> As a Thunderbird user, could you possibly try telling Ethan again how he needs
> to set Thunderbird to produce comprehensible replies. His persistent use of
> his own peculiar method must be turning off more people that just me. I
> didn't even read his last, most complicated one.
>
> I agree with your comment about changing subjects. I have changed this to
> increase the liklihood that, if you reply to my email, Ethan will see and
> read it.
Well, typically the "Was Re: blah" part would be in parenthesis for
clarity, but that works. I've added the parens here, though, 'cause I'm
anal about such things. :-)
Ethan: If you're not just being stubborn about not complying with a
(literally) decades-old netiquette standard (especially after being
specifically requested to do so by other members of this list) and need
help getting Thunderbird configured properly to do it right, please feel
free to contact me off list and I will be happy to assist you.
--Dave
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