Re: etiquette for replying to daily digests

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

> On Nov 8, 2024, at 14:14, Alex Buie <abuie () cytracom com> wrote:
> 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.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 11:38 AM <joel () joelesler net> wrote:
> 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.

This, and change your subscription to individual messages for the
duration. You need the message-id and related headers to create a
properly threaded reply and you don't have them. Few will notice and
none will harangue you for starting a new thread with your first reply
but if you do it with every reply it gets really old really fast.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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