[wxPython-users] Responding to questions in the list

[Robin Dunn]

John Salerno wrote:

> Ah yes, the digest. I didn't like receiving too many emails all the
> time. But as far as responding, it's normal to just delete the text
> you don't need and respond to the rest?
> 

Yes, it's considered a common courtesy. I usually try to include enough 
context that somebody who hadn't seen the previous messages can still 
get at least an idea of what is being discussed, but beyond that the 
less quoted text the better.  In fact, back in the "old days" some 
USENET clients would not let you post a reply if the ratio of quoted 
lines to new lines was not at an acceptable level.  If you quoted a 
couple dozen lines of text and only added a "me too" then there was no 
way it would get through.

As far as doing it with digest messages though... It works, but the 
problem is that it breaks the threading of messages that some mail 
clients provide.  In other words, since you didn't really reply to the 
message you appear to be replying to (you're replying to the digest 
message) then the client may not be able to tell where to put your 
message in the threaded display.  For example, at gmane and in my mail 
client your message I am replying to now is shown as a reply to your 
original message, not a reply to my reply to your original message. 
(Try saying that five times without getting lost!)

(See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.wxpython/37168/focus=37168)

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Robin Dunn
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