[Coco] Thread mess?

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 06:46:55AM +1000, Nick Marentes wrote:
> On 8/10/2014 6:01 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >  and you have the mess we live in today.
> >There may be something to that, but most email clients at worst only
> >create problems for their own users.  Mistakes by people screw-up
> >threading for everyone.
> >
> >People make two main mistakes in this regard:
> >
> >   -- they attempt to start a new thread by replying to an existing
> >   message and simply changing the subject; or,
> >
> >   -- they attempt to reply to a thread by sending a new message to
> >   the list while using the same subject as an existing thread.
> So the short answer is:
> 
> Always REPLY to a message thread and DO NOT change the subject line if you
> want to stay in that thread.
> 
> To start a new thread, start a new message to the list.

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