[SciPy-Dev] email client is misconfigured - replies are breaking the threading

[Ilhan Polat]

I think you are starting a new thread each time instead of replying a
thread. Subscribe your email to the mailing list and receive the mails in
your email account. Then you can reply to the latest email in the thread
and it should work fine.

Breaking thread means your email starts a new thread as I quickly marked
with my horrible drawing skills

[image: Inline image 1]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Robert Lucente <rlucente at pipeline.com>
wrote:

> >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:23:22 +1300
> >From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress
> >       on (Ralf Gommers)
> >
> >Hi Robert, note that your email client is misconfigured - your replies are
> >breaking the threading. Can you please look into that?
>
> I am not sure what "breaking the threading" means.
>
> In https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html, I found
>
> Use bottom-posting.
>
> When replying to a message, please use bottom-posting. This means quoting
> the content you reply to and inserting your replies below each quote. For
> more details, see posting style.
>
> Before, I was using Outlook from Microsoft Office Professional 2013. I
> have now switched to using EarthLink's Web Mail to reply to these emails.
> It seems to produce the appropriate number of ">".
>
> Is this better?
>
> If not, please make some suggestions. I just got my System 76 Bonobo
> running Ubuntu. Perhaps I need to use a Unix based email client?
>
> _______________________________________________
> SciPy-Dev mailing list
> SciPy-Dev at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/attachments/20180129/7233bf26/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image.png
Type: image/png
Size: 99848 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/attachments/20180129/7233bf26/attachment-0001.png>