On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:05, David Timms wrote: > shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: > > http://learn.to/quote > > <snip> > > 2. Quoting and Answering > > 2.1 How much should I quote? > > It is not necessary to quote the entire text of the person you respond > > to. A quoting should always and first of all clarify the context, > > enabling the reader to understand the flow of the thread. A quoting is > > not ment to re-post the previous article. [...] > > Just a query: Do any subscribers to the list use a threaded mail viewer > ? Since subscribing, I realized it's an option that I normally don't use > for email. But for this back and forthing, it is really helpful: it is > easy to ignore a thread I'm not interested in, yet keep all the previous > messages in each thread together, so when further Q/A/statements are > posted, they are automatically grouped with the original thread. It also > means a quoted part needs only be seriously minimal. When I was > accessing the list through the monthly archive on redhat or aims group, > it was terrible trying to match together bits of the same thread from a > long web page of post links. Google groups used to showing threading, > but their new version hides that by default : ( Silly when it really > ideal for this sort of information, so that you don't need to keep > reading the same crud over and over. > > If there is anyone willing to let us know what method you use to read > the list, please reply to this thread ? And also whether your method > supports threading ? Is there any web mail servers that can provide > threaded message lists ? Can ms lookout do it (haven't used it for 4 > years) ? My preference is Kmail (under kde 3.5). Threading is set in preferences and handled very well including mail lists. Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list