Re: [Evolution] Broken threading (was: Restoring data to new HDD)

["G.W. Haywood" <evolution jubileegroup co uk>]

Hi there,

On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, Paul Menzel wrote:

> It?d be great if you followed the netiquette! ...

I've read Mr. Raymond, thank you, and it'd be great if people didn't
make unjustified and incorrect assumptions.  As you have seen I keep
the subject line intact.  I properly trim and quote.  The lines I send
are less than 76 characters long.  Although I can be a bit caustic I
don't abuse people and I try to stay on topic.  My sig follows after a
double hyphen and is less than four lines.  Oh, and if anyone cares, I
don't send UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 (especially not in 'From' headers - and
no, Mr. Menzel, despite your use of UTF-8 that wasn't directed at you :).

This list is like a pit full of vipers.  I've seen people come here
for help, and go away so bruised by the experience they completely
give up on Evolution and never come back.  I'd like to put you all in
a bag and shake it until teeth fall out.  Netiquette?  The myopia here
is truly staggering.  Flame a first time poster because he didn't know
what his version number was, nor even that he had one, but for pity's
sake do *not* mess up the threading.

One of the responses to my earlier comments was that if the thread is
broken he would consider ignoring it.  That might be rational on some
other lists, but since this one is _devoted_ to problems with a mail
client, it seems rather stupid.  It's like my doctor refusing to treat
me for laryngitis if I can't speak clearly to explain what's wrong.

One of the posters to the earlier thread was kind enough to write for
me a little alpine-digest-list-threading-HOWTO.  He talked about using
'V' to view the message attachment.  Well, there go those assumptions
again.  Unluckily he neglected to test his theory, which is all that
it was.  Pointless noise.

You see, there are no attachments on the Evolution users' digest list.

And you, Mr. Menzel, knowing I'm on the digest list, sent this:

> -------------- next part --------------
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: screenshot-of-broken-threading.png

C'mon guys, wake up, this is all public and it's embarrassing.

If someone wants to put some effort into improving the list software
of course I'll be happy to help in testing it, but as I've said before
I'm on the digest list for good reasons.  Now you've seen one of them.

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73,
Ged.