[Coco] Message Threading

[David Ladd]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:29 AM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 03:54:53PM +0200, Tormod Volden wrote:
> > > From: Brett Gordon
> > > Has anybody else notice broken message threading here in the last 2
> months
> > > or so?
> > >
> >
> > There is one guy on the list who /always/ breaks the threads. He will
> > always start a new thread, although with the same subject. I have told
> > him privately and offered help to fix his mail program, but to no
> > avail. I tend to ignore "his" threads and anybody who continues there
> > instead of the original thread. With all the traffic on this list I
> > would really appreciate that people take care, it is about respect
> > towards the 400+ subscribers.
> >
> > Tormod
>
> Amen to that. Some people seem to believe that message threading is
> done by matching subjects (and therefore that changing subjects makes
> for a new thread). This is, of course, generally incorrect...except
> that some email clients (i.e. MUAs) are broken in just this
> way...*sigh*...
>

​You know John I am probably one of the offenders in this case.  I did not
know that, but now that I know I can start making sure to create a new
email directed to the list with the proper subject and only copy the
relevant info from a previous email to make sure the new topic stays where
it needs to be.

Thank you for informing those of us whom are ignorant in such things. :D​



>
> So, to everyone else..._PLEASE_ only reply to a message on the list
> if you are actually replying to the subject of that message. If you
> are actually starting a new subject (i.e. a new thread), then send
> a new message to coco at maltedmedia.com -- yes, you have to endure
> entering the actual To: address. :-)
>
> So, just for clarity -- if you Reply to an existing message and then
> change the Subject, you are not starting a new thread. In this case
> you are literallly just "changing the subject" in the middle of an
> ongoing conversation. That is rude both in real life and in email on
> the Internet.
>
> John
>
> P.S. If anyone wants to dispute the details of how email message
> threading is supposed to be done, then I'll be glad to dig-out some
> of the relevant RFCs upon request...
> --
> John W. Linville                Someday the world will need a hero, and you
> linville at tuxdriver.com                  might be all we have.  Be ready.
>
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