Re: Questions for all candidates

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>]

On 29/03/25 9:13 pm, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> On Saturday, March 29, 2025 2:34:35 AM Mountain Standard Time Nilesh 
> Patra wrote:
>> On 28/03/25 9:33 pm, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
>>> I didn't realize it was a hard break. My fault.
>>>
>>> In fact, thinking more about it, the hard break wasn't inserted by
>>> Gmail, but by me copying and pasting from the web interface,
>>> because I'm not suscribed to -vote and I read it there (that's
>>> also why I can't set In-Reply-To correctly unless I'm actually
>>> replying to an email that was sent to me, I've never found how to
>>> add it manually in Gmail). When I reply to an actual email, my
>>> quoting style works because there are no hard breaks within
>>> sentences. I didn't realize that this case was different.
>>
>> Just use a proper mail client where you can set that. It works
>> reasonably well with (neo)mutt.
>>
>> You are pretty much breaking all the threads wherever you reply to.
> 
> Notice how beautifully this problem would be solved if we no longer 
> had hard breaks at 80 columns.  ;)

Please explain how?

I fail to see the relation between 80 line hard breaks and In-Reply-To mail
header.

> Debian needs to live in a world where people are not reprimanded for 
> using common webmail clients.

I am definitely not reprimanding anyone. Just suggesting a way to fixup headers
since their webmail does not support it.

Or, simply subscribe to the mailing list for sometime. Use use something like GMANE.