[OSM-newbies] proscriptive rudeness on newbies list to be discouraged

[Bill Ricker]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> No, no it's not.  By failing to split the original digest into original
> messages before replying, you destroy the In-Reply-To: references
> header.  This breaks threads.

having Subjects is better than nothing. It is possible to follow the
logical thread with subject sort or next by subject in most tool-sets.

insisting that newbies subscribers of all people do it the way we
graybeards did it when digests were invented or not at all is rude and
hardly conducive to building community, which is what this list is
about.

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Bill
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