Re: Please don't use "reply" to start threads.
Re: Please don't use "reply" to start threads.
- Subject: Re: Please don't use "reply" to start threads.
- From: Denis Stanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:24:40 +1300
Alastair
Sorry.
On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 11:30 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
Denis,
Sorry to moan, but please, when starting a new thread on the list,
write a *new* e-mail rather than replying to an existing one. There
are fields in the mail headers that are used by mail readers to
organise messages into threads; these get copied when you reply, so
that replies end-up in the same thread, *even if* the subject line is
different.
I didn't know that. It doesn't seem to happen with the email reader I
use (Mail 1.2.5). I make use of the colouring to follow a thread. I
don't believe I've ever seen a change of subject line within the same
thread, as identified by Mail, so I assumed that the subject line was
all that mattered (allowing for the addition of Re:). of course this
could mean that I am the only miscreant on all the lists I use, and
that I've never tracked backwards to see if my thread is concatenated
with the one I used to generate the "reply".
Looking back at my recent message that started a new subject, which I
assume is the one that triggered your protest, I see nothing obvious in
the raw source view that identifies any previous thread. Is there an
ID number buried in there? Does your mail reader use a different
mechanism from mine to determine the thread?
It's only new messages that end-up in a thread of their own.
I have always used reply because I belong to many lists and I'm too
lazy to remember the exact names. Nine of them begin with "web" and
six on the begin with "webobjects".
I will try to be more considerate in future.
Denis
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