[clug] Ways to post messages to mailing lists

[Francis James Whittle]

Broken threads.  Broken threads.  Geez.
The last few days have had some nice examples of how not to do it.

John Telek has been completely incapable of replying to a message
properly, and has given a top level post all the time he shouldn't.
This is nothing new for John and I think his mail client must be broken.
Others appear to have posted Off-topic for a thread, perhaps because you
don't realise that replying to a post tracks to the thread it's in.
It's very disconcerting to read something that actually has relevance to
linux in the middle of a thread where someone has decided to go ahead
and be a jerk, and post about their own ineptness.

Can we please be more careful about this?  Those of us who have threaded
displays in our mail clients get a really disorganised list of crap we
don't like -- well, I don't like that kind of clutter anyway, and I have
to presume that pretty much anyone actually using a threaded message
list doesn't.

Thanks,
	Francis