From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 14:33:30 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 1829216A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E0C43D31 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no) Received: from broadpark.no (61.80-202-129.nextgentel.com [80.202.129.61]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852456FA3; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:33:29 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <4060BC96.30603@broadpark.no> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:39:18 +0100 From: Henrik W Lund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040224 X-Accept-Language: no, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Peter N. M. Hansteen" References: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no> <87wu5cdpyp.fsf@tosh.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <87wu5cdpyp.fsf@tosh.datadok.no> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 22:33:30 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: |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 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-----