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  • Subject: Disrupted Threads in the Mailing List
  • From: "Jerry W. Walker" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:40:25 -0400

Greetings,

<RANT>

Ken Anderson has pointed this out a couple times, but I wanted to lend strong support to his statement:

"...please don't reply to old messages to start new threads - it's very annoying for people who organize by thread, or the html versions of the mailing list."

When asked why, he offered the following succinct justification:

===============================
The In-Reply-To header is included.

	From: 	  email@hidden
	Subject: 	Some important problem
	Date: 	May 12, 2006 4:11:15 PM EDT
	To: 	  email@hidden
	Message-Id: 	<email@hidden>

	From: 	  email@hidden
	Subject: 	A completely new topic
	Date: 	May 12, 2006 4:39:32 PM EDT
	To: 	  email@hidden
	In-Reply-To: 	<email@hidden>
===============================

I don't know whether some mail clients have changed recently to include the "In-Reply-To" header or whether people are replying to old threads with new subjects more often now, but I've been seeing a lot more mixed threads in the last couple months than I remember seeing before that.

I like the "In-Reply-To:" header, because it allows one to change the Subject line to something like "Some important problem [SOLVED]" and have it remain in the thread.

Like Ken, I find it disconcerting to be reading through the messages of a thread and find a completely new subject thrown in the middle of it. (at least the new author did change the subject which I have been accused of failing to do when moving off in tangents, but I digress...).

I find it even more disruptive when I'm looking through the archives quickly and find the "next message in thread" has a new subject, leading me to believe that the thread I'm researching has ended when it hasn't.

So I'll add my request to Ken's that people please avoid clicking the Reply button on their mail clients when they wish to start a new thread.

</RANT>

Thanks.

Regards,
Jerry

--
__ Jerry W. Walker,
WebObjects Developer/Instructor for High Performance Industrial Strength Internet Enabled Systems


    email@hidden
    203 278-4085        office

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