From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 07:40:22 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 7FD6916A4CF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from munk.nu (mail.munk.nu [213.152.51.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5C543D1D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:40:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1B5RXH-000NZM-Mp; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:40:19 +0000 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:40:19 +0000 From: Jez Hancock To: Henrik W Lund Message-ID: <20040322154019.GC87530@users.munk.nu> Mail-Followup-To: Henrik W Lund , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <405EFC9C.4070207@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Jez Hancock 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: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:40:22 -0000 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 > 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