Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:39:18 +0100 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: "Peter N. M. Hansteen" <peter@bgnett.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Root" posting Message-ID: <4060BC96.30603@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <87wu5cdpyp.fsf@tosh.datadok.no> References: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no> <87wu5cdpyp.fsf@tosh.datadok.no>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: |Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> 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 I'm running Mozilla mail, and it doesn't seem to be able to reply to certain parts of a digest message. This could be just a setup issue, I'll look into it. Anyways, it seems people doesn't think it's as big of a deal as I was concerned they might, so I guess I can just post away. :-) - -Henrik W Lund -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAYLyQnzC5lcw9P3IRAu0PAJ0Q/HRkU+XO/LlgVNM0TSJXu0qJ9ACeMz4c d+B5xc2R+0C+VK2R0X3LSxg= =LKcP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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