Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 01:30:27AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > slrn beats 'em all. Bravo, we can subscribe to a mailing list and read > it with a newsreader. Yay. Real newsreaders and mail user agents > don't fsck up the quoting (above fixed manually :-). I've used slrn for years for newsgro

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/27/2010 01:16 AM, Celejar wrote: > Or use Sylpheed, where you can subscribe to a newsgroup and read it > with an MUA ... ... or use Icedove/Thunderbird for reading not only news://, but RSS as well as mail. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4c774786.8010...@familyross.net>, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting >> style. > >Joel Spolsky does. > >http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html In all fairness, h

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:30:27 + (UTC) "s. keeling" wrote: ... > slrn beats 'em all. Bravo, we can subscribe to a mailing list and read > it with a newsreader. Yay. Real newsreaders and mail user agents > don't fsck up the quoting (above fixed manually :-). Or use Sylpheed, where you can

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:37:29 +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > noela...@gmail.com : > >> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first > >> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. > >Yep. "Pan" (a nntp newsreader) has such option. > > S

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting style. Joel Spolsky does. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:30:21PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [...] > seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and how to > properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're all using > the crappy Gmail MUA): It's not that bad; I've actually grown fond of it and I'm a

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Tixy : > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > >> noela...@gmail.com : > > >> > > >>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the > > >>> text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section >

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > >> noela...@gmail.com : > >>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text > first > >>> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be > quoted. > >>

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> noela...@gmail.com : >>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first >>> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. >> Yep. "Pan" (a nntp newsreader) has such option. > > So does Claws-mai

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> noela...@gmail.com : >> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first >> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. >Yep. "Pan" (a nntp newsreader) has such option. So does Claws-mail. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat:

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey! > On 08/25/2010 10:52 AM, Gary Roach wrote: snippy > I sent this email to the chromium-discuss mailing list, as there > doesn't seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and > how to properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're > all using the crappy Gmail MUA)

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/25/2010 10:52 AM, Gary Roach wrote: > This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been > subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a > reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not > sure how it should really be done. I search

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:39 -0400 Christopher Judd wrote: ... > In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and > then Sylpheed, too. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secur

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:39 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:58:07 Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > If I reply to , how does my reply get >> > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:58:07 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > (...) > > > If I reply to , how does my reply get > > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. > >

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: (...) > If I reply to , how does my reply get > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. I guess you'll have to manually delete the extra quoting, at least until

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread John Hasler
Gary Roach writes: > If I reply to , how does my reply get > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. It's up to you. decent MUAs provide help with quoting but you must edit down included text. > I still need to kno

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:52:33 -0400 (EDT), Gary Roach wrote: > > This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been > subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a > reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not > sure how it should

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi Have you read http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ ? On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 17:52, Gary Roach wrote: > If I reply to , how does my reply get > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. Your responsibility AFAIK.

Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Gary Roach
Hi; This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not sure how it should really be done. I searched for about a half hour on google and on