[dundee] Graphics cards, Firefox and Thunderbird.

[Andrew Clayton]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:56:10 +0000 (GMT), Malcolm wrote:

> I had no idea about top/bottom posting, I just type where the cursor
> is.

It isn't just this list that you'll get attitude from if you top
post ;) Lists of a technical nature are often demanding technically...

> Also how can you tell that I used the reply function?  I changed the
> subject line and wiped all the text.  My original post looks fine to
> me.

Oh, it may look fine. That's not the problem. The problem is where your
post showed up.

As it was a completely new post it should have shown up in its own
thread and not in the middle of some other thread.

This happened because you replied to the message with a message id of
<CAJBULYCSL8YEhPFaqRY9EGyev+Jf9gg86nCqrZJKMDaRLMFp+g at mail.gmail.com>
which was a message from Grant Richmond <grant at terminalpixel.co.uk> in
the 'Edinburgh Hacklab Trip' thread.

That is how email threading generally works. By setting a SMTP header
called In-Reply-To with the relevant message id, so in your case your
email contained the following header

'In-Reply-To:
<CAJBULYCSL8YEhPFaqRY9EGyev+Jf9gg86nCqrZJKMDaRLMFp+g at mail.gmail.com>'

Which mail clients use to do the message threading.

Hopefully that's somewhat clear.

Oh and what graphics card did you go for?