En/Je/On 2018-02-14 19:40, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users escribió / skribis / wrote :
> Please, please, please do not "hijack" a thread. Don't reply to a > thread and change the subject to something completely unrelated. I agree. That is important. I support your request. Some times, email users _reply_ to whatever message they are reading, change the subject and write a message on a totally different topic... That makes some things more difficult for others, especially on email lists. All email messages have a metadatum in its header containing the unique identifier of the replied email, if any. That is how email clients can sort messages hierarchicaly. The problem is some web-mail services (including Gmail), or even some "actual" email clients, thread messages _also_ by the subject line... I guess that's why some users are not aware of the problem. But threading by subject line is a cosmetic trick: the real link between messages is still there, in their internal header. Of course, sometimes it's necessary to change the subject in the middle of a thread, but only when the conversation _naturally_ leads to a different topic. In those cases, the change helps to identify the topic branches in the hierarchy. And there's a convention for that: Subject: Re: Original topic Subject: Modified topic (Was: Re: Original topic) Hope this helps. > If you start a new thread by replying to another, and change the > subject, your threaded topic ends up hidden within the original topic Exactly. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
