META: Using mailinglists (was: French)

Erbrice schrieb:

> but how do each personne knows you answer to him (or her) ?
Of course only answer to posts of the same thread in one email. So for
example if you want to answer to a message from the other thread,
"Concept_sitting", don't do it all in a thread (e.g. "French") that
doesn't have anything to do with that, even when you're bulk-replying.
Of course you can also start a new thread when the discussion topic has
changed during discussion (like I did with this mail). Other than that,
your mail program already indicates to who you are answering
automatically. Just open the mail, click "reply", and copy the "Le 00
mois 00 à 00:00, John Doe a écrit :" your mail program puts above
quotations and the snippet you want to reply to (never the whole mail in
case it's rather long!) into the mail window which you want to use for
your replies. It's essentially like in forums, except the program you
use isn't your browser, but your mailer. :) It's up to people themselves
to make a filter in their mailing program that specially marks a mail
when their name has been mentioned.

However, what I mean is that at least *my* idea of proper quoting style
looks kind of like this for bulk-replies:

| Hi!
|
| On January 22, 2009 John Doe wrote:
| > Bla bla bla bla bla bla
| > Bla bla bla bla
|
| In my opinion ...
|
| On January 21, 2009 Jack Smith wrote:
| > On January 19, 2009 Jane Doe wrote:
| > > Lorem ipsum ...
| >
| > [...] dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
|
| Suspendisse at lectus.  Maecenas ut libero quis risus...
|
| Regards
| ABC

That way it's clear who you're replying to, even if you quote multiple
people in one mail.

> (I hope the other posts won't have to be answered to !)
Nobody said you're *forced* to answer everything and all at once. :)

Regards
Carsten


(Sorry if I may have slipped into a patronizing tone, it wasn't meant
that way! I just intended to share some advice.)

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