On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 12:05 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 14:11:02 +0000 > Guyenne Tsui <guye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Also, I have no idea how to reply to a thread on a mailing list so it > > would be practical if you teach me how. I use Gmail. I even installed > > Thunderbird as according to Debian Wiki on Mailing Lists but still no > > idea how to reply to people. > > Exactly how you reply to a thread depends on your mail reader. In > general, just reply to an appropriate email in a thread. Control-R is a > common shortcut for the purpose. Your mail reader should pick up the > information necessary so the rest of us will see your reply as part of > the thread. > > Two thoughts on netiquette... > > Trim the text to which you are replying. Get rid of text not > immediately relevant to your reply. Gmail hides that for you, so you > don't see it. Other mail readers don't hide it. I did so above. > > You put two separate subjects (your GPU problem and replying) into the > same email. This means that replies to the two separate subjects will be > interlaced, to everyone's confusion. A partial remedy is for a > responder to change the subject line as appropriate, but even that has > problems. A better approach is to start with a separate email for each > subject. > I am also on Gmail. When I click (or tap) on Reply, it invariably wants me to send the Reply to the individual who sent the email, as opposed to the Debian Users List. So one additional task for me is to edit the "To" field, so that it specifically goes to the List. Is this, generally an Issue, or is it specific to Gmail? -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > Occasionally. :-) https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ Thanks! Kenneth Parker > >
