From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gitlab Migration Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 10:41:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83v93qnhhs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h7fcnmq0.fsf@posteo.net> <87o89kw0hl.fsf@gnus.org> <0c369b25-aedd-1fdf-4813-503f27e42c7c@yandex.ru> <874kbbznwv.fsf@gmail.com> <8735qvwcqt.fsf@gmail.com> <20210828065708.GA29375@tuxteam.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16658"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 28 09:42:55 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mJszO-00047g-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:42:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJszN-0003wp-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:42:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJsyM-0003H8-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJsyM-00043L-2U; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2317 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJsyL-0001nu-0p; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:41:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20210828065708.GA29375@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273240 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 08:57:08 +0200 > From: > > For better or worse, some MUAs [1] and corporate-influenced > workflows have trained a significant part of the population to > top-quote. We encourage people not to top-post, but don't require them not to do so. Some of them do, as you can clearly see in the archives. > While this might work in the context of personal mail, it fails > miserably in mailing lists, yielding a longer thread practically > unreadable. We generally suck it up and survive. When the fraction of these is not too high, it is not a problem in practice. > On top of that, some MUAs (again, the same) don't know what a > Message-ID is and thread based on Subject. Resulting in monster > threads with the incredibly informative Subject "Re:". That's what Rmail does, and I have yet to see a significant problem with it, let alone that it broke my workflows.