[OT] (was Re: Is there a partiton size limit?)

[Ray Parrish]

Thorny wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:02:35 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
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>> Thorny wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:37:58 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
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>>>> [...]
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Where Thunderbird starts a new message in relation to the quoted
>>>> material in a reply is easy to change. Go to Edit, Account Setting,
>>>> then in that dailog, select the "Composition and Addressing" line in
>>>> the tree on the left side under the account you wish to change the
>>>> behavior for. [... (more about configuring TBird)]
>>>>     
>>>>     
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>>> Don't know why you threaded this to me Ray, perhaps a mistake. I mostly
>>> use KMail but do know how to configure TBird. Actually, I read this list
>>> with Pan.
>>>
>>> Hope the poster you intended to inform will notice it here.
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>> I wasn't actually responding to you, I was responding to the quoted person
>> in your last post that stated they were using Thunderbird, while you were
>> telling them that even if they used Thunderbird it was still protocol to
>> bottom post here.
>>
>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>     
>
> My point was that you threaded your reply to my post rather than the
> poster you wanted to inform, but you wrote to him and your post appeared
> to be to me due to that sub-threading. Threading exists for a reason,
> whether it is a good reason or not is often a matter of personal opinion.
>
> Actually, I didn't tell him what the protocol was here, I just tried to
> answer his question about top posting. And, hopefully, not start that
> whole argument again here.
>
> Regards
>   
And my point is that I responded in natural thread order, instead of 
jumping back a message in the thread. Anyone following the thread will 
already know that the reply was to the person who asked the question, 
because they are presumably reading the thread in thread order. If I had 
removed his question from my reply, then I could see your protest as 
being valid but I did not.

Threading should start at the original question, and then progress 
naturally down through all of the replies. That way anyone reading a 
thread can tell what is going on. I have my email client set to show 
only unread messages in a thread, so when I exit this group's folder, 
then come back to it, all previous posts are invisible, so I don't 
always have the option of easily jumping backwards in a thread, even if 
I felt it were necessary.

If you insist on pressing this minor issue, then I can easily fix it, by 
establishing a filter to sort your posts to the trash, and you will 
never experience the "problem" again.

Later, Ray Parrish

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