[MD] Decision

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Magnus, Craig, All.

14 July you wrote:

> Hi Craig I have a little request for you, it's about what you do when
> starting to reply to a post. It should be enough to just press some
> button in your mail program called "Reply", you will then get the whole
> text of the mail you want to respond to and then start editing the
> text. Nothing else is required. 

I keep receiving Craig's posts to MD privately and have asked him 
what causes this, if I am on some private distribution list of his? Hope 
you can advice him on this issue as well. And another thing: Why is it 
that so many produce long-line posts that makes it impossible to read 
them without scrolling to the other end of the universe ...  or open them 
in "reply" mode? It started with DMB and his posts seem to infect the 
posts of some who respond (not all though, my Pegasus Mail is not 
affected) so finally the MD is full of these ugly things. Can't you tell 
DMB what to do too? 

Bodvar 












     





 
> However, it seems you're almost always see a need to edit the Subject
> line. When most other people have replied to a post, the subject line
> says something like:
> 
> Re: [MD] Decision
> 
> The "Re:" part is usually prepended by the mail program and means
> "regarding". The [MD] part is prepended by the list server and is also
> a good piece of info for all of us as receivers. It's rather good to
> leave the "Re:" (and [MD]) parts intact for several reasons.
> 
> 1. We see that you're not the thread starter. If you remove it, it
> looks like you are, (which is a bit confusing).
> 
> 2. Often, you forget to remove the space between [MD] and the subject
> thread name. This results in a subject line like:
> 
> [MD]  Decision       (2 spaces after [MD])
> instead of
> [MD] Decision        (1 space after [MD])
> 
> 3. When I sort mail messages according to the thread name (by pressing
> the header above the message list called "Subject"), your posts aren't
> always listed together with the other posts in that thread. This is
> because of the extra space you sometimes leave behind. That also goes
> for the posts that have replied to your posts with the extra space,
> like this one. I have 2 spaces after [MD] in this post because this is
> a reply to your post.
> 
> 
> So, what I want to say is, don't edit the subject line on our account.
> It makes it a teeny bit more cumbersome to read. If you really feel a
> need to do it though, of course I can't stop you.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>  Magnus
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2010-07-13 21:04, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:
> > [Arlo]
> >> ["Four!"] is not a sentence...
> >
> >
> >
> > Substitute "Duck!".
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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