> On Nov 8, 2024, at 15:58, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > >> On Nov 8, 2024, at 14:14, Alex Buie <ab...@cytracom.com >> <mailto:ab...@cytracom.com>> wrote: >> I (and I'm sure many of you) subscribe to daily digests from NANOG to keep >> things concentrated. However, there are sometimes messages in the digest I'd >> like to reply to, and I don't want to be that guy who just replies to the >> digest and opens an ugly new thread. > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 11:38 AM <j...@joelesler.net > <mailto:j...@joelesler.net>> wrote: >> Generally speaking, you want to trim the digest to the relevant posts, >> bottom posting your reponse (if you’re interested in nitpicking). This >> practice was prevalent until Microsoft Outlook introduced the top post >> culture. Let’s not go down that rabbit hole. >> >> >> Additionally, editing the subject line to include what you’re responding >> about can be helpful. > > This, and change your subscription to individual messages for the > duration. You need the message-id and related headers to create a > properly threaded reply and you don't have them. Few will notice and > none will harangue you for starting a new thread with your first reply > but if you do it with every reply it gets really old really fast.
See Bill, now you’re speaking my old school bottom posting, mutt using geek language.
