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: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:42:11 +0000
On 9 Mar 2004, at 20:24, Denis Stanton wrote:
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Alastair
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Sorry.
No need to apologise, I'm well aware that you didn't realise that it
might cause a problem :-)
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On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 11:30 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
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> There are fields in the mail headers that are used by mail readers to
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> organise messages into threads; these get copied when you reply, so
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> that replies end-up in the same thread, *even if* the subject line is
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> different.
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I didn't know that. It doesn't seem to happen with the email reader I
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use (Mail 1.2.5). I make use of the colouring to follow a thread.
AFAIK it uses the In-Reply-To, and Message-Id fields to chain the
thread together (I'm using Mail.app 1.3.3, but many other mail reading
programs also thread based on the headers, rather than subject lines...
it makes sense when you think about it, because sometimes you want to
change the subject of a thread halfway through).
Mail 1.2.5's colouring didn't use the headers, as I recall, which
probably explains your confusion :-)
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> It's only new messages that end-up in a thread of their own.
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I have always used reply because I belong to many lists and I'm too
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lazy to remember the exact names. Nine of them begin with "web" and
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six on the begin with "webobjects".
A useful trick is to put them into your address book, then you can give
them simplified names.
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I will try to be more considerate in future.
Oh, don't worry too much :-)
Besides, it's to your advantage as well to use the new message button
rather than replying, because people skip over threads they aren't
interested in, so might miss one of your posts that they would
otherwise have replied to.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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