[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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