[Sussex] Starting a new thread

[Thomas Adam]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> Steve/Andrew,
>
> 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.

-- Thomas Adam

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