From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 22:47:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F43816A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:47:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from vs.bgnett.no (vs.bgnett.no [194.54.96.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C35CE43D31 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:47:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: (from root@localhost) by vs.bgnett.no (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) id i2N6l0rl072689; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:47:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from tosh.datadok.no.bgnett.no ([194.54.107.19]) by vs.bgnett.no (8.12.8p1/8.12.8av) with ESMTP id i2N6ki1N072546; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:46:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@tosh.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 23 Mar 2004 07:42:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no> Message-ID: <87wu5cdpyp.fsf@tosh.datadok.no> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Henrik W Lund Subject: Re: "Root" posting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:47:01 -0000 Henrik W Lund writes: > The ongoing debate about top posting vs. bottom/random posting has > sparked a somewhat related question in me: what about root posting > (e.g. posting to the root of the list, instead of in the relevant thread)? Some mail clients support a digest mode which lets you follow up to individual messages in-thread (at least gnus does). If your mail client does not support that, it probably makes the most sense to followup with a reasonable subject (perhaps even one cut'n'pasted from the bit you are interested in), stripping off the parts not relevant to your message. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"