Re: etiquette for replying to daily digests

[joel () joelesler net]

> On Nov 8, 2024, at 15:58, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 8, 2024, at 14:14, Alex Buie <abuie () cytracom com <mailto: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 <mailto: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.

See Bill, now you’re speaking my old school bottom posting, mutt using geek language.