6 Sep
2018
6 Sep
'18
3:21 a.m.
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 9:40:30 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Gilles Gravier wrote:
That's a matter of opinion. Many people consider it good manners to
specifically mention people participating in a discussion. For
example,
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/arti…
specifically states:
Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender
and to FreeBSD-questions [the list].
(Henri, you're in copy of this again,
because first time I did a Reply
instead of Reply to list/all. Sorry.)
One of my pet hates is people who use "Reply All" because either they are
too lazy to edit the Reply (and they top-post, too), or the list is set up
that way. I really don't need my own personal copy, as well
as a list copy.
That's what procmail is for.
Oh, and people who are too lazy to trim their replies
too, because
they are encouraged to top-post.
Yes, that's in that URL too:
Put your response in the correct place (after the text to which it
replies). It is very difficult to read a thread of responses where
each reply comes before the text to which it replies.
Also another thing that I still think very important:
If the submitter did not abide by format conventions (lines too
long, inappropriate subject line), please fix it. In the case of an
incorrect subject line (such as âHELP!!??â), change the subject line
to (say) âRe: Difficulties with sync PPP (was: HELP!!??)â. That way
other people trying to follow the thread will have less difficulty
following it.
That doesn't explicitly address the issue of change of topic within a
thread, but it should.
Greg
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