[Foundation-l] How to reply to a mailing list thread

[Tim Starling]

Chad wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>> Hello --
>>
>> Some of the people posting to this mailing list don't seem to understand how
>> to write a decent, readable reply to a mailing list thread...
>>
> 
> What possible good did you see coming from this thread? You
> /knew/ it would produce a bunch of "I agree"s and "I'll post how
> I want"s and go nowhere useful at all.
> 
> Lame.

Maybe he was not aware of how this subject turned out last time around:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-April/042321.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-April/042359.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-May/042399.html

-- Tim Starling