[Mageia-discuss] who knows about site mageia-br?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 28 September 2010 19:52, andré <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
> Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>>
>> 2010/9/28 Gustavo Ariel Giampaoli<giampaoli.gustavo at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to break threads and I want to follow the lists, so, any
>>>> good advices what I can do?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You could use web GMail always. It works fine for me. But it's
>>> because, as you, I user different machines. So I'd like to see always
>>> the same. I use web GMail  only.
>>>
>>
>> That's what I've been doing for the time being but then I read that
>> Gmail breaks threads and limits the length of a thread, as Ahmad Sahir
>> wrote. :(
>>
>
> The most critical point, as Ahmad said, is to never change the subject, as
> Gmail will then start a new thread.
> Google also starts a new thread after 100 messages, but that is much less of
> a problem.
>
> Note also that the default location for replies using Gmail by the web is
> BEFORE the message being replied to.  To avoid "top-posting" (replying
> before), please ensure that you insert your replies AFTER the part you are
> replying to.  This makes it much easier for others to follow the discussion,
> particularly if you are replying to multiple parts of the same message.
> And of course, deleting parts of the message to which you are not replying
> also helps others follow your point(s).
> - André :)
>

Come on, I already know how to avoid top-posting (by not posting when
I am on the roof (the top) of the house). :D (kidding).

Yes, gmail doesn't give an option to default to bottom-posting but
that just means a couple of extra mouse scrolls to bottom-post
manually.

-- 
Ahmad Samir