On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:08:23AM +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:05 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > > > when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark > > > ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big > > > drawback. > > > > When I ask a question and then either am giving an answer or figure > > one out, I reply one more time to the thread and append <SOLVED> to > > the subject. That's a pretty commonly known technique recommended by > > ESR: > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#followup > > > > But all too few people choose to use it. > > > > SteveT > > Thanks Steve. I didn't know it works like that. > > Don't you really start a new thread by changing the subject? I this is > the case, the information is still not organised/concentrated in one > place as it should be.
Everything, including all grouping is done on client side. So it is your choice (of a mail client and/or configuration) whether a changed subject is shown as a new thread. Andre'
