Now that you explained all that, should I reply or reply all? ie - this message does a reply all as:
To: "R. Joseph Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Beginners--Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: Threading In List Replies [Re: QUESTION] I did a reply all. Please let me know if this is correct. fw > [This new thread concerning an issue raised in the > "question" thread initiated with > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was broken off by beginning > a new message to eliminate references, then pasting in > relevant material from the other thread.] > > Rob Dixon wrote: > >> To others who have posted on this thread, I had so >> much trouble working out who was saying what to whom >> that I gave up. Why are all of the posts at the top >> level instead of beneath the items that they corresponded >> to? > > Thanks for the observation, Rob. This has been bugging me > for some time. The problem here is that neither of the > mailers used in the PHP/Perl feud makes good use of the > Message-ID of the post they are responding to. The problem > is not isolated, though. It seems the majority of mailers > are bad in this regard. > > Of the 13, 139 posts in a mailbox used for this group, > 13,139 had a Message-ID header line. That is very > dependable. Unfortunately, only 5,582 had References: > items, and only 1235 had Reply-To: lines. I doubt that the > others all hand-modified their subject lines and > hand-quoted the text, so I assume that there mailers are > simply not good at linking posts. > > Folks, please examine your proof copies of the replies you > send, use "Full headers" view. If you don't see any > reference to the Message-ID of the post to which you are > replying, look for a better mailer application. That tag is > so reliable that it is insane to neglect it in a discussion > group such as this. > > Joseph > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------------------------------------- eMail solutions by http://www.swanmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
