On 23/06/11 00:01, lee wrote: > Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 22/06/11 21:53, Camaleón wrote: >>>> On 21/06/11 23:29, Camaleón wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:01 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>>>>> But at least you did not reply to a digest. >>>>> >>>>> Sure. I'd say digests are for reading more than replying. >> >> And I am in absolute agreement with you! > > Hm, I wonder why anyone is going to the lengths of replying to digest > messages rather than just subscribing to the list ...
You could just ask the person.... (look for the "Digest" subject line) I've had to replied to posts from digests - I edit out the digest cruft rather than perpetuate an abomination. For convoluted reasons I subscribe to a digest from another list - I edit my responses carefully though. While some will argue that ruins the header information - the purpose is to make indexing for searching, and threading by subject line, work. Not to provide a forensics trail for the anally retentive. > >> But then - I also believe if someone top posts there *is* something >> wrong. Likewise posting in HTML. Or posting to the list because they are >> unable to do something, but then insisting on rudely declaring how >> something must be done (and still expecting respect). > > Here or anywhere else, indeed. I´m seeing badly designed followups way > too often. Some people don´t even use quote marks so that it becomes > indistinguishable who says what or what someone is referring to. I wish > there was a way to automatically detect such followups to automatically > lower their scores and have them not displayed anymore. or a way of reaching out and giving them a digital slap upside the head... > > Do you know of a good reference that teaches people how to post I could > point to in my signature? > > http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.3 http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Though, in many cases I suspect you'll have more success if you simply get the instructions inscribed on a blunt, heavy, object. Like a "knowledge" club. :-D Cheers -- And I'll tell you something, too, that's starting to annoy me about UFOs: the fact that they cross galaxies or universes to visit us, and always end up in places like … Fyffe f#@!ing Alabama. Maybe these aren't super-intelligent beings, you know what I mean? ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e029ef3.9010...@gmail.com
