[dundee] Pedant mod on

[Keir Lawson]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 15:02, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 14:52, Keir Lawson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 14:39, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 14:30, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> > > > Rule 1 of Mailing List Ettiquette:
> > > > 
> > > > Don't reply to e-mails of one topic if you want to start a totally new
> > > > topic, it screws with proper threading and that's annoying.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yep, I wondered what had happened there. Two other topics under fortran
> > > IDEs ;)
> > > 
> > > Ahh, looking at the full mail headers I can see what is going on...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > kthx
> > > > 
> > > > Mark
> > > > 
> > > --
> > > Andrew
> > > 
> > i meant to change the subject line but i forgot. sorry
> > 
> 
> Just changing the subject line isn't enough I don't think. As the
> message id of what your replying to seems to be encoded in the headers.
> So if you reply to a message, then delete the subject line and the
> contents, then put in a new subject line and new contents, it still
> appears as a reply-to message and will be threaded as such.
> 
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong...
> 
>  
> 
> > keir
> 
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
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sorry. in future i will start a new message.

keir
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