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:
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The In-Reply-To header is included.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some important problem
Date: May 12, 2006 4:11:15 PM EDT
To: [email protected]
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A completely new topic
Date: May 12, 2006 4:39:32 PM EDT
To: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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
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__ Jerry W. Walker,
WebObjects Developer/Instructor for High Performance Industrial
Strength Internet Enabled Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
203 278-4085 office
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