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.