> Quoting Stephen Pitts([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > <SOAPBOX> > > If you wish to start a new thread on the list, > > PLEASE send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > DO NOT just reply to any old message in your mailbox. > > If you do that, then the threading gets messed up, > > and it doesn't display right in the archives, or > > in threaded mail clients like mutt.
[...] > Might it be that these mail programs have poor docs? Might it be that > the people that use them don't realize how badly these posts mess up > the display of good MUA's. Might it be OK for me to recommend that > they take a look at mutt. Maybe it would be a good idea to put some `posting guidelines' in the email that confirms subscription to the list. Some of my own peeves for that list would be: *) Use a descriptive subject, not `Linux problem', or `help needed', or `Unidentified Subject!', and certainly not `HELP, URGENT!!!!!!!', but more something like `Debian won't boot', or `Lost mail with elm'. *) Read the list before responding to it. If you know the answer to a question, first check if it has not been answered before. The list is busy enough as it is without twenty explanations of how to delete a file named `-r -f *'. *) Quote as much as necessary, but not more. Please put your comments _below_ relevant quoted text, not above. *) Remember people are taking the trouble to reply to your questions in their own time. If your question isn't answered the first time, try a different subject line, don't get angry. There is no plot to ignore you. *) Information for new users can be found at ... Newbie Guidelines ... /usr/share/doc ... etc ... HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)