[Labs-l] posting style

[Jeremy Baron]

On May 1, 2014 6:30 PM, "John" <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tracked your email back, (Please dont use timestamps they are a pain to
dig up) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-May/002391.html is
the email in question.

Agreed. Not just a pain but then you have the extra complication of someone
maybe forgetting to include timezone. (in this case the user seems to have
included "UTC")

Also,
* I haven't gone digging in the headers to figure out the difference but
somehow you seem to be sending mails with the same subject line as an
existing thread and those then end up not being grouped under the same
original thread. Please just hit reply (or reply all) and type your
message. Only change the subject line if you're really branching to a
different subject. (As I just did)
* Quote the *relevant* parts of past mails you're referring to and reply to
those inline. If necessary you can hit reply on a past mail, then
copy/paste from that mail to your working draft so you can quote multiple
mails in a single message. We conveniently have a number of good examples
at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/posting_style

-Jeremy
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