[Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Mon Mar 23 20:26:39 CET 2015


On 03/23/2015 02:54 AM, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Al Black wrote:
> 
>> Further to the point, between top posting and lack of editing, the
>> digest format of list posts are essentially unreadable.
> 
> Do you mean the MIME digests produced by mailman ? I totally disagree,
> they are one of the best features.


I think he's referring to the difficulty of reading (in particular) the
plain format digest when it's full of top posted "me too" replies with
quotes of quotes ...

Trying to find the original material amongst the quotes which you've
already seen multiple times in the same digest is daunting to say the least.

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