Steven Hartland wrote: > That's one for the notes for the future. A totally new subject and > new content tends to indicate a new thread to my mail reader > but I suppose all are not created even.
Real email programs use the "In-Reply-To" and/or "References" headers to determine which message an email is in reply to, and do not care what the subject or body contain. This allows for proper threading even if the subject is modified somewhere within the thread. So for example the participants can modify the subject (as I have done to indicate that this is now off-topic) and the threading will still be correct. Thus if you hit reply and then change the subject and completely delete all quoting, those of us with non-broken email programs will still display your message as being a part of the completely unrelated thread that you replied to. So, if you wish to start a new thread, do so by using your email program's "new message" feature and not its "reply" feature. > Does appear the list software needs a bit of an update though. > The issue with it setting personal address as the reply to field > could do with being fixed at the very least would save a lot of > hassle. *sigh* No, that's how mailing lists are supposed to work. Lists where the ML software forces the Reply-To to the list address are broken. See <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html> In fact, you'll find that the mailing list software used here does nothing to the Reply-To header, it honors whatever you set it to. So if you want replies to go to the list, you should set it to the list address. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
