Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:40:19 +0000 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Root" posting Message-ID: <20040322154019.GC87530@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no> References: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:47:56PM +0100, Henrik W Lund wrote: > 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)? Please please *please* don't lets have lots of examples of how and why this is a bad thing ala greg lehey's posts above <g> > For someone like me, who is on digest (and not planning to go off it > soon. The digests clutter my mailbox enough as it is), it is often a > matter og being reluctant to post to an ongoing thread, knowing that > my email will fall "out of" the thread context. I noticed someone top-posting a while ago to this list whilst including the complete digest mail below his/her top-post - 70k or so(?). I don't see why you can't just strip out the part of the digest that's relevant to you and reply to it in-line, adding a suitable subject. It's been a while since I subscribed to a digest list, but I wouldn't be surprised if mutt actually lets you reply _only_ to an individual mail in a digest mail, allowing you to maintain threading. Depends how the digest is formatted I suppose. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040322154019.GC87530>