Re: etiquette for replying to daily digests

[joel () joelesler net]

Generally speaking, you want to trim the digest to the relevant posts, bottom posting your reponse (if you’re 
interested in nitpicking). This practice was prevalent until Microsoft Outlook introduced the top post culture. Let’s 
not go down that rabbit hole.

Additionally, editing the subject line to include what you’re responding about can be helpful.



> On Nov 8, 2024, at 14:14, Alex Buie <abuie () cytracom com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I (and I'm sure many of you) subscribe to daily digests from NANOG to keep things concentrated. However, there are 
> sometimes messages in the digest I'd like to reply to, and I don't want to be that guy who just replies to the digest 
> and opens an ugly new thread.
>
> Curious what workflow/process any of you use to do so, and what the best/netizen-polite way is to end up with a reply 
> that's appropriately threaded. Do I just need to mirror the subject line?
>
>
> Alex Buie
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