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RE: suggest adding posting dates to follows-up and references
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)" <Kenneth dot Nellis at conduent dot com>
- To: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:31:31 +0000
- Subject: RE: suggest adding posting dates to follows-up and references
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From: Eric Blake
> On 02/22/2017 08:27 AM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote:
> > FWIW, here's a change that I would find beneficial:
> >
> > At the bottom of a post, which is either a reply and/or has a follow-up,
> > we see something like the following example:
> >
> > • Follow-Ups:
>
> I'm guessing that you are using a webmail interface. Such text is NOT
> part of the email body being sent, but is rather it is added by your
> webmail provider interpreting the <In-Reply-To> headers present on the
> message. Other mail clients have their own way of showing threads. But
> your request is not something the Cygwin list can change, but rather a
> feature you'd have to request from your webmail provider (or that you
> can change by downloading your emails and reading them with a local
> client like thunderbird or mutt).
No, I'm not using webmail. I am using browser to read postings directly
from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin. (I copied from the web page,
then pasted and did a bit of editing to get the bullets to render
somewhat before posting. Maybe that gave the appearance of what
webmail might do.)
--Ken