Threading/followups Re: [sclug] Mail choices

[Neil Owens]

What - worse than top posting, or dare I say, it HTML mail?

Sorry guys and I won't post here again.

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: 20 January 2006 00:35
To: 'sclug'
Subject: Re: Threading/followups Re: [sclug] Mail choices


* John Stumbles <john at stumbles.org.uk> [2006-01-19 23:53:52]:
> Being the sort of anal person who keeps practically all my email 
> (since
> you never know when it'll come in handy to look up, say, recycling 
> policies in Wokingham :-)) it's a bit of a pain when a new thread gets 
> grafted onto the deeper branches[1] of an existing thread because it got 
> started as a reply to an existing message instead of as a fresh message.

Yes, it's called thread hijacking and for anyone who uses a threaded MUA,
bloody irritating.

Changing the subject isn't enough, check your headers to see all of the
normally hidden references to previous messages.

99% of the cause is not setting an address book entry up IMHO, it's easier
to just click a previous mail, scrub the subject and go from there. Except
it isn't...

Matt
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