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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
