[Klug-general] To Dan regarding apology and response to Bash/Curl advice

[Mike Evans]

On 15/04/11 17:33, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> Ok sorry Dan.
>
> I misread the advisory below to mean, *edit the subject line when
> sending and i thought that meant not replying (although it says ... when
> replying doh!.*
> "When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more
> specific than "Re: Contents of Kent digest..."

Gah - you've done it again!

I don't know what mail reader you are using Stephen but the preferred 
behaviour is:

Do not edit the subject line
Simply reply to an email - usually using the mail reader's reply option.

Provided you reply your mail reader should use the reply-to address of 
the header of the incoming mail, and the subject should remain unchanged 
(possibly with the insertion of a Re: which will be ignored)

Most other people's mail reader will then group your emails and all 
associated responses into a single thread, which they can then choose to 
follow or not follow.  So far you have created seven threads in my mail 
reader in the course of two days.  All effectively about the same thing.

If you want to reply to a person specifically then do so off-list by 
addressing it to them personally.  Their addrss is in the From field of 
the incoming email.

I hope this helps.

Mike