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On 08/06/2019 10:29, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Le sam. 8 juin 2019 à 10:25, Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it> a écrit :Sorry for top posting, but... ...could you please abstain from answering your own messages. This completely disrupts a thread flow and makes it extremely difficult to follow the different sub-threads. Especially when it is done repeatedly and "recursively".But it was threaded correctly subtopic by subtopic, you may reply to independant ones they are all attached to the initial thread in a single group.
Sorry, but this is not the point. And this is not how people use mailing lists. From what you say it seems you are trying to enforce "your way" of organizing a thread.
We could go on forever discussing whether or not it is a good idea, but the fact is that mailing lists are old, pre-web things and the current de-facto "standard" is not what you propose or use.
The fact that people still /want/ to use this "prehistorical" <grin> medium, and not a new-fangled blog/forum/chat/webwatever thingy, means that the "standard way" to use it is THE "right way".
Of course there are some limited community-related ML netiquette variations, but the core "rules" are the same. And this is why (IMO) MLs are still used. Once you know how to use one, you know how to use any one (just lurk a bit after registration and read some of the archives to get the feel of the community and you are ready to go!).
The "standard" way to do what you say is: quote the relevant part of the original message, possibly snipping-out the rest if it gets in the way, then reply to the part you are interested in.
If you keep on doing what you do, people might filter-out your name in their mail client to avoid clutter, and you'll end-up being listened-to less rather than more (and the web archive of the thread will look like a mess anyway).
If you find it difficult to put everything in a single message that's probably a symptom of one of these "problems":
1. Your message is definitely too long for a mailing list format (too much inline code? put it in an attachment file, if it makes sense).
2. You are rambling too much. Stick to the point in the subject and open a new thread to discuss other ideas. You can say you are opening a new thread and people could read it if they are interested. You can't post a link, like in a forum, but again, MLs don't work like a forum.
3. You didn't think well about what you are trying to say and your messages are not part of a real answer/question dialogue (as it is supposed to be on a mailing list), but are more a "flow of consciousness" kind of thing. In other words, you are using a mailing list more like you would use a blog, but that's not the way MLs are supposed to work.
4. Your message is not really a message. MLs have been thought as a way for a /group/ of people to collaborate and exchange information and opinions in a quick, easy TEXTUAL way, in which everyone could (ideally) follow what /every other/ people on the thread are saying.
They are not a place for posting essays.In other words, keep in mind what a mailing list is NOT (e.g. not a forum, not a chat, not a blog, not a WIKI, not a BBS, not an online magazine, etc.)