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: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:10:37 -0600
Well FWIW, I'm using Mail 1.3.3, and this thread most certainly is
showing up as being part of the "Apple Developer Certification" thread.
I use the "Organize by thread" feature, and if I did not expand the ADC
thread, I would not have seen any of your posts at all. So not only for
politeness, but also just to get people to see your thread, you would
be better off using "New Message" instead of "Reply" to start threads.
Charles
On Mar 9, 2004, at 2:24 PM, Denis Stanton wrote:
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Alastair
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Sorry.
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On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 11:30 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
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> Denis,
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> Sorry to moan, but please, when starting a new thread on the list,
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> write a *new* e-mail rather than replying to an existing one. There
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> 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. I
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don't believe I've ever seen a change of subject line within the same
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thread, as identified by Mail, so I assumed that the subject line was
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all that mattered (allowing for the addition of Re:). of course this
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could mean that I am the only miscreant on all the lists I use, and
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that I've never tracked backwards to see if my thread is concatenated
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with the one I used to generate the "reply".
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Looking back at my recent message that started a new subject, which I
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assume is the one that triggered your protest, I see nothing obvious
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in the raw source view that identifies any previous thread. Is there
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an ID number buried in there? Does your mail reader use a different
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mechanism from mine to determine the thread?
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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".
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I will try to be more considerate in future.
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Denis
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