Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}
On 2013-11-20 17:45 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote:
>
> > An attribution wouldn't have hurt but it's plain to see that Jon
> > was replying to Emilio's message, not Ron's. Or don't mailers
> > show threads any more ?
>
> Mutt, the one I use, does; but I don't keep *all* the messages
> in a thread. I must have deleted the message that Jonathan
> referred to at some stage. I think this adds more credence to
> the point that providing context and attribution would
> certainly help avoid conversations like this one.
Agreed with your conclusion but I'll add one of my own :
deleting mail has a cost. :->
A possible alternative is flagging. "F" to mark the important
posts, "/~F" and "n" to find them, "l~F" to hide the others.
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André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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