[Coco] Message Threading

[Barry Nelson]

>        John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
<mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20Message%20Thread
ing&In-Reply-To=%3C20170809142952.GA24271%40tuxdriver.com%3E> 
Wed Aug 9 10:29:52 EDT 2017

 

>         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*...
 
>         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
<https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>  -- yes, you have to
endure
>         entering the actual To: address. :-)
 

>        ~~~

 

I am glad that some of you have the time to receive and soft through
individual message from this list, however some of us like to receive the
list as a periodic digest of messages and so never receive any message in
our mail client except one with a subject like "Coco Digest, Vol 179, Issue
22". I also see that some people (not necessarily the poster of this
message) also have nothing better to do than to make a stick about how other
people reply to messages. Perhaps it would be better if I stopped posting
messages to the list altogether? Or maybe we should all go back to actually
discussing the topic the list is dedicated to, Color Computers, and stop
complaining about minor technical inconveniences? If there is a better way
to handle digest messages and reply, however, do contact me off list, but I
intend to continue receiving the list in digest form as long as that is
allowed.