On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:39 PM, TGC <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> And, often the wrong magic. If the user is just trying to compose an >> unrelated message, rather than a reply. >> >> First, the user should be asked whether this is a reply or a new message. If >> it's a new message, then leave the subject untouched, maybe review the >> recipients, and do not add references and in-reply-to headers. > > Oh, Gods, yes, please. To stop people from casually breaking threading would > be such a boon.
Easy way to bring that to someone's intention: have a bar (under the Subject field?) which says "In reply to", followed by a message icon and the email's sender/subject. Double click on the icon you get to view the message. There's a cross icon next to it, to remove the in-reply-to header. If someone's just hit Reply to fill in the To line, they'll see this "In reply to" bar, and hopefully realise that hitting the cross might be a good idea :) Also, people might be more willing to change the subject within a thread that way. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
