To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)
Warren DeLano
warren at delsci.com
Thu Dec 4 19:17:20 EST 2008
> From: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au>
>
> "Chris Mellon" <arkanes at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Peculiarities in usenet resulted in this discussion having several
> > threads and I missed some messages before I wrote this email.
>
> I'll put this more bluntly: Warren's messages to date
> egregiously break the flow of discussion.
>
> Warren, in the interest of sane discussion in these forums, please:
>
> * preserve attribution lines on quoted material so we can see who
> wrote what.
>
> * use the convention of ?New subject (was: Old subject)? when you
> change the ?Subject? field of a message.
>
> * switch to a client that preserves threading in messages you send,
> i.e. that properly constructs the ?References? and ?In-Reply-To?
> fields.
>
> General advice good for everyone, of course, but particularly
> apropos to this reply. Any one of the above is detrimental to
> omit; striking on all three makes a discussion almost
> impossible to follow. (Thank you, though, for avoiding the
> worse habit of top posting!)
Thank so much for the suggestions Ben. Sorry that I am personally
unable to live up to your high standards, but it is nevertheless an
honor to partipicate in such a helpful and mutually respectful community
mailing list!
Warren
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