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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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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
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