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Re: OT: Footnotes in email (Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)



On 2021-03-10 at 11:00, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:

> Andrei POPESCU and all:
> 
> I see that you and a few other people use what I'll call footnotes in
> your emails, e.g. (with lots of things stripped out):
> 
> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 09:08:30 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> Packages from backports are generally good enough to run even on
>> "important" systems. For systems that are "mission critical"[1]
>> you should do your own testing.
> 
> ...
> 
>> [1] whatever that means for you
> 
> I'm curious how you do that, or more specifically, are you using an
> email client that (semi-?) automates that for you?

For myself, I type them out by hand. This does occasionally result in
having one end of the note sit dangling with the other not present.

I've never heard of an E-mail client that supports automating this, and
I'm not entirely sure I'd want it automated, although a "did you forget
to finish this?" reminder such as my Thunderbird configuration provides
when I type a word like "attach" but don't include an attachment might
be helpful.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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