[Tfug] List etiquette: start a new thread!

[johngalt1]

You chose the digest option.

Digests suck.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "eric christian" <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net>
To: <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] List etiquette: start a new thread!


> >
>> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:15:41 -0700
>> From: Matt Jacob <m at mattjacob.com>
>> Subject: [Tfug] List etiquette: start a new thread!
>> To: TFUG <tfug at tfug.org>
>> Message-ID: <48C56BCD.7090003 at mattjacob.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;
>> format=flowed
>>
>> It seems like there's been a lot of these lately, so
>> here's my pissy
>> Monday morning rant after running out of coffee at work
>> and being
>> severely low on caffeine.
>>
>> If you want to reply to an existing thread or an ongoing
>> list
>> discussion, please use the "reply" feature of your MUA
>> (mail user
>> agent). If you'd like to start a new thread with a
>> different subject
>> line, please use your client's "new / write / compose"
>> feature. It may
>> seem easier to just hit reply and change the subject line
>> there, but
>> there's something going on behind the scenes that ends up
>> being annoying
>> for some of us.
>>
>> For you see, some of us read the list in a threaded mode
>> where related
>> messages are kept together in the same "thread". When you
>> reply to a
>> message, your client appends the In-Reply-To: header and
>> inserts the
>> message ID of the message you're replying to. My client
>> picks up on that
>> and injects your "new" post into the same thread as the
>> message you
>> replied to.
>>
> Yes, i used to use elm with slackware. MUA here now is TB
> (non-threading). I'm confused on what to do because
>
> 1) TFUG email comes in digests
> 2) TB's quoting behavior on the Reply feature
>
> Assume that i want to reply to an email that is in the
> middle of the
> digest. Assume also, another email before this email has a
> sig. Now,  i
> could use the Reply on the digest and edit the subject
> line. TB,
> however, stops quoting at the sig because it thinks the
> email is at the
> end. So, the email quote i want to reply on is not there.
> I have been just copying the particular email in the
> digest and use the
> Compose feature, editing the subject line to "Re: ...".
> What to do?
>
> While we're at this,
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:21:33 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: "Charles R Kiss" <charles at kissbrothers.com>
>> Subject: [Tfug] Mount Problems
>> To: tfug at tfug.org
>> Message-ID:
>>
>> <50781.76.188.232.136.1220120493.squirrel at webmail.kissbrothers.com>
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>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:26:15 -0700
>> From: "johngalt1" <johngalt1>
>> Subject: [Tfug] apt-get undo
> The above is what i actually received. For some reasons,
> the text of
> Charles's posts never make it here. Since this is the n-th
> time, i ask
> why? MUA here is as said TB.
> Eric
>
>
>
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