Yeah, somebody else mentioned this to me, and also said that Pine did as well. I guess it was the version I used at the time. I only used KMail and Pine long enough to know I hated them. Been using Mutt for some time now. But this topic seems to have gotten well out of hand. I even had a few people email me with quite nasty notes after my post. I was starting to believe I was the Anti-Christ and my Mother never told me, with the way they were responding and acting to all of this. And to think it started from a simple question about the mailing list! I wasn't even making a stand for either top posting or bottom posting, but I was still called an idiot and other host of lovely and very poignant names. As long as the message is conveyed, who cares where it's posted? But oh well. There are perks to living in a world where you can argue your point of view until you're blue in the face, now we just have to learn to afford other people the same rights huh? Thanks Sridhar! tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30am up 9 days, 13:15, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 05:47, Tim Holmes wrote: | > Those links are all find and dandy, but not for a MAILING list. Those | > are unwritten and accepted ruls for NEWSGROUPS, which this is not. | > | > The reason why those are so accepted and enforced on news groups, is | > because 100% of all newsreaders I've used, show the original post and | > responses right there with the message. So quoting a post is really | > only for the person that reads a post, then deletes the thread. That | > would be the only need for hugely quoted message. | > | > However, mailing lists are entirely different. Some people don't | > include any of the message they're responding to, and as I've noticed in | > working envirnment, replies that come in several days AFTER the original | > message was sent, catches the person of guard. Not sure what email is | > about, so they then go searching for the message they sent. | > | > Also in the case of this mailing list, we have a lot of questions asked | > about KMail. So we know a lot of people on the list are using that, and | > of course there's pine. Neither one of these readers will sort out the | > mail into threads. So you can have the original question sent in at | > noon, the first response comes in at a 2. But in that two our time | > span, 25 other messages come in. So rather then just replying and | > hoping people can find the post it was a reply to, they add what they're | > replying to. And this is really only a courtesy for those have readers | > like this. So that's why it's placed at the bottom. | | I don't mean to pick, but KMail in KDE 2.2 _does_ support threading. I agree | with your arguments, though :-) | | -- | Sridhar Dhanapalan. | "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: | LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." | -- Jeremy S. Anderson ------------------------------------------------------------------
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