Replying to Digest Post(s)
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 22:09:31 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 12:45 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> NO! NEVER, EVER reply to a digest. There are NO exceptions. The
> proper way to ask questions or start new threads is to create a NEW
> message with an appropriate subject line and content and send it to
> fedora-list at redhat.com.
Digests are meant to be a read-only distribution mechanism, but there
are times when someone might want to reply to a message contained in a
digest. Obviously the threading is lost anyway, since "replying to a
message within a digest" is not a supported operation because most of
the header info is lost. Furthermore, the digest itself is not a list
message, thus has no thread of its own to mess up. However using "reply"
instead of composing a fresh message gives you the chance to quote the
original message without a lot of nasty cutting and pasting, so I
wouldn't rule it out absolutely.
> The ONLY time you should reply to a message is when you're commenting
> on the content of the message. Anything else (changing a subject
> line, etc.) is hijacking the thread and is severely frowned upon.
Actually I think changing the Subject is a Good Thing (tm) in this
specific case. Since threading doesn't depend on the Subject anyway,
there's no problem.
poc
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