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@xxxxxxxxxxx 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
