[Sussex] Starting a new thread

[Steve Dobson]

Thomas .. Brendan

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:03:35PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> > I had a similar thought - if every email had a link for "Start a new
> > topic/thread here" it would probably reduce the number of mishaps
> 
> Let's run through this (top-posting is bad).  You have (I assume) a mail
> client.  Therefore you should (top-posting is bad) know how to use it.
> (top-posting is bad)  Which mail client to do you have?  If it's mutt,
> then all you need do, is press 'm', and you're sorted.  Mutt also allows
> you to list mailing-list addresses so you can type in a very short word,
> et voila.
> 
> If you're not (top-posting is bad) using mutt, then pine has a similar
> feature.  If you're using a web-based system (ugh), then all you need to
> do is add an entry to your address book for it...
> 
> How hard (top-posting is bad) can it be?  It really annoys me when
> people thread-hijack.  It shows both ignorance and laziness of the
> individual.  You might not have been aware of it, and that's OK for a
> first mistake.  But most MUAs don't take kindly to it.
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex

I'm glad I'm not the only one that like to see e-mail writen in a
certain way.  :)

I have added an e-mail address to footer to make it easier to those
that use broken [:-)] MUAs for sending e-mails.  Let's hop this
helps.  This message is the first test to see if I got it write.

Steve
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