[Labs-l] posting style

Thu May 1 23:10:22 UTC 2014

I do just hit reply the primary issue comes from Bryan White's emails as
just about every one of his starts a new thread for some unknown reason.

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy at tuxmachine.com> wrote:

> On May 1, 2014 6:30 PM, "John" <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tracked your email back, (Please dont use timestamps they are a pain
> to dig up)
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-May/002391.html is the
> email in question.
>
> Agreed. Not just a pain but then you have the extra complication of
> someone maybe forgetting to include timezone. (in this case the user seems
> to have included "UTC")
>
> Also,
> * I haven't gone digging in the headers to figure out the difference but
> somehow you seem to be sending mails with the same subject line as an
> existing thread and those then end up not being grouped under the same
> original thread. Please just hit reply (or reply all) and type your
> message. Only change the subject line if you're really branching to a
> different subject. (As I just did)
> * Quote the *relevant* parts of past mails you're referring to and reply
> to those inline. If necessary you can hit reply on a past mail, then
> copy/paste from that mail to your working draft so you can quote multiple
> mails in a single message. We conveniently have a number of good examples
> at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/posting_style
>
> -Jeremy
>
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