[Coco] Thread mess?

Nick Marentes nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
Tue Oct 7 16:46:55 EDT 2014


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.

Nick


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