[Coco] Message Threading

[Dave Philipsen]

Just something interesting that I've seen:  It appears that the latest 
version of Thunderbird acts a little differently (for me) than in the 
past.  In the past, if I were simply to reply to a message on this forum 
Thunderbird would automatically know that I'm replying to the list and 
use the list email address to send it. Now, it seems that I must 
specifically click on 'Reply List' because 'Reply' simply replies to the 
sender.

Since I am used to just clicking on 'Reply' and letting the email client 
figure it out for me, sometimes I do that and then realize that I am not 
sending to the list and then I'll go and change the 'To:' line.  I don't 
know if this ever affects the way the messages end up getting parsed as 
far as threads are concerned.

Another thing to remember is there are guys (like me) who do not choose 
to read their email with the thread-sorting turned on.  We just read 
each message as it comes through to the list.  So to say that it's rude 
to change the subject in the middle of a thread is perhaps a little 
extreme (since many of us may care or know little about threads in 
general).  Also, it was suggested that changing subjects in a 'real' 
eye-to-eye conversation is rude too.  But in my experience that's not 
the case.  Casual conversations regularly morph to different subjects as 
they progress and we think nothing of it.  You could start talking about 
the weather and end up talking about Kim Jung Un two or three minutes 
later.

So the way I see it is this:  The thread sorting/organizing is something 
that is done automatically behind the scenes by some computer(s).  We as 
humans normally converse in ways in which the subject continually 
changes.  To slap some guy's hand for innocently changing the subject 
(perhaps he even thinks he is doing us a favor) because he has seen that 
the subject has indeed changed could be construed as rude too.  After 
all, how is he to know exactly what's going on behind the scenes?

By the way, I'm not the one Tormod has counseled about this and I don't 
believe I have changed subjects on a regular basis but I do remember one 
or two times having done it in the past.

Dave


On 8/9/2017 12:07 PM, Mark D. Overholser wrote:
> On 09-Aug-17 09:06, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 9, 2017, at 7:29 AM, John W. Linville 
>>> <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I agree that doing so is rude and annoying. I'm also observing the 
>> opposite issue, though. For example, the subject "Booting OS9 on my 
>> CoCo 3" is presently appearing broken up into three threads in my 
>> MUA. I'm using Mail under macOS. Is my MUA broken in the way it 
>> combines messages into threads, or is something else happening that's 
>> making Mail thread messages in a correct but undesirable way?
>>
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> I am seeing a similar Issue, but see the Thread, "[Coco] Booting OS9 
> on my CoCo 3"  in Four Threads, with the Head starting under "[Coco] 
> GCC6809 cross compiler, assembler & linker"...
>
> I am using Thunderbird under Windows and Mac OS X.
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> MarkO
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