On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jake Shipton crazylinuxn...@gmx.com wrote:
On 07/29/2011 12:48 PM, Thomas Harold wrote:
Heck, I'd settle for people coming back to a problem / issue thread
and updating on how or what the actual problem was or what they did to
get the thing to work properly.
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads -- multiple
factors
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jake Shipton crazylinuxn...@gmx.com wrote
On 7/28/2011 5:01 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote:
the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to
headers, whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt
will use the subject line as well to thread messages.
Apple Mail does that too and it makes the threading unusable IMO.
On 07/29/2011 07:48 AM, Thomas Harold wrote:
On 7/28/2011 5:01 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote:
the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to
headers, whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt
will use the subject line as well to thread messages.
Apple Mail does that
On 07/29/2011 12:48 PM, Thomas Harold wrote:
Heck, I'd settle for people coming back to a problem / issue thread
and updating on how or what the actual problem was or what they did to
get the thing to work properly.
So often you'll see a thread talking about trying X, Y Z, then the
On 07/28/2011 09:59 AM Tony Mountifield wrote:
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Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote:
Is that why it's frowned upon to use a
Regards,
Marc Deop
On Thursday 28 July 2011 11:14:38 ken wrote:
On 07/28/2011 09:59 AM Tony Mountifield wrote:
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Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Keith Roberts
On 07/28/2011 04:19 PM, Marc Deop wrote:
This discussion makes no sense to me. If the email client is using the
subject for threading it is doing something wrong (or you specifically set it
that
way).
As Ken said, there are headers used to organize the emails.
the thing is that not all
On Thursday 28 July 2011 16:52:07 Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 07/28/2011 04:19 PM, Marc Deop wrote:
This discussion makes no sense to me. If the email client is using the
subject for threading it is doing something wrong (or you specifically
set it that way).
As Ken said, there are
On 07/28/11 8:52 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to headers,
whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt will use the
subject line as well to thread messages.
Its the References: header that controls threading in mail clients
On 07/28/11 10:21 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
So the mail clients that don't set these headers should be fixed, right? I
mean, fix the broken software rather than try to fix human habits in order to
keep using broken software.
a frequent cause of missing References seems to be users who get a
On 07/28/2011 06:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
So the mail clients that don't set these headers should be fixed, right? I
mean, fix the broken software rather than try to fix human habits in order to
keep using broken software.
Habit is an interestion term, same with convention - the fact
On 7/28/2011 12:32 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/28/11 10:21 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
So the mail clients that don't set these headers should be fixed, right? I
mean, fix the broken software rather than try to fix human habits in order to
keep using broken software.
a frequent cause of
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:49 +0100, Thunderbird Fan (KB) wrote:
ideally people would
stop using yahoo mail / squirrelmail etc.
... and use a *real* email programme ?
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Paul.
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On 07/28/2011 06:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
Its the References: header that controls threading in mail clients
that support it. I'm using thunderbird, and afaik, it won't revert to
Subject based pseudo threading in the absence of References. Subject
line changes don't break the thread,
On 07/28/2011 06:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
But the thing I'd like mailers to do is to call attention to messages
that belong to a thread where I've replied earlier. Is there a way to
get thunderbird to do that?
yes, I mark email threads I am interested in with a flag, and its easy
to
On 07/28/2011 06:54 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:49 +0100, Thunderbird Fan (KB) wrote:
ideally people would
stop using yahoo mail / squirrelmail etc.
... and use a *real* email programme ?
'real' is hard to quantify, but an email client that does the right
thing
On 7/28/2011 12:57 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 07/28/2011 06:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
But the thing I'd like mailers to do is to call attention to messages
that belong to a thread where I've replied earlier. Is there a way to
get thunderbird to do that?
yes, I mark email threads I am
On 07/28/2011 06:54 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
My argument here is that not
all mail clients do, therefore sticking with subject line sanity would
help increase the number of threads that can stay together.
I agree with KB on this one.
Way I see it is, you could go everyone to install a new
In article 4e319b13.8000...@hogranch.com,
John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
On 07/28/11 8:52 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to headers,
whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt will use the
subject line as well
the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to
headers, whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt
will use the subject line as well to thread messages.
Apple Mail does that too and it makes the threading unusable IMO.
If the clients are too dumb to adhere to a
On 07/28/2011 10:01 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote:
Personally, I like the idea of the [SOLVED] tags because they can
indicate when help is no longer needed.
There is a fundamental problem with that - this list isnt a support
list, its a list of and for people who use CentOS to talk about CentOS.
By
There is a fundamental problem with that - this list isnt a support
list, its a list of and for people who use CentOS to talk about
CentOS. By thinking of it as a one way support system you have
reduced the list to essentially a bugtracker / issuetracker / support
thread and that in itself
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