[155786] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 55, Issue 68
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Wed Aug 22 23:56:00 2012
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:55:26 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120823000952.BEF3023F0AD6@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 22/08/12 5:09 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> You top posted to a digest with multiple threads in it. If you are
> going to reply to a digest DO NOT TOP POST the entire digest. Trim the
> message down to the message(s) you are replying to and fix the subject
> line. You choose to receive digests. With that choice comes the
> responsability to reply properly.
Frankly, I don't understand why a technical list like NANOG even allows
subscribing to a digest - folks here should have the bandwidth to accept
individual emails and the technical expertise to filter them etc.
That said, it's a very simple matter to configure mailman to
automatically bounce back to the sender any and all messages when the
subject includes the following text:
NANOG Digest, Vol
Or the body includes the following text:
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of NANOG digest..."
From my past experience managing mailing lists, doing this will
eliminate 99.999% of improperly formatted replies to a digest email.
jc
