On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:28:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:18:15PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:49:56 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:43:47AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > 
> > > > sorry, this is a private egoistic request, so I took the liberty and 
> > > > removed Linus and Andrew from CC: If this wouldn't make things more 
> > > > difficult / worse for you and anyone else, could you perhaps post such 
> > > > patch chains as a reply to the first message (patch 0/x) and not each 
> > > > subsequent patch as a reply to the previous one? It would make it easier 
> > > > to view for _me_ (remember egoistic?) because my mail agent (pine) 
> > > > presents mail threads where every reply level produces a small right 
> > > > offset in the subject line, so, starting from about reply number 20 the 
> > > > subject is completely off-screen.
> > > > 
> > > > Again, this is a minor trouble, and, perhaps, I am the only one suffering 
> > > > from it, but if it doesn't matter either way for everyone else, I would 
> > > > really appreciate it that way.
> > > 
> > > Heh, people ask me about this every few months or so, so you are not
> > > alone.
> > 
> > I'd prefer that change also.  In fact I just modified (trivial)
> > send_lots_of_email.pl (gregkh_patchbomb mailer) to do this,
> > except that I just have it create an mbox that I email via
> > msmtp.  (and it reads a 'sendpatchset' control file for input
> > instead of needing to modify the script source file itself)
> 
> I use git-send-email these days, and it already supports this with the
> --no-chain-reply-to option.  I'll consider using it next time, if at
> least one more person complains about this :)
>...

*complain*  :)

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> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian

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