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According to Christopher X. Candreva on 7/21/2007 7:26 AM:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> It is considered good netiquette to not reply to an unrelated message,
>> which messes up how your message appears in a threaded view, but instead
>> to start a new thread.
>
> Since when ? It's been a long standing practice to use an old message to get
> the address for the new one. If someone has developed some new threading
> mechanisim that breaks standing practice, fix that.
At least since RFC 822 standardized the In-Reply-To: and References:
headers, way back in 1982 (ie. longer than the 20 years you claim to have
been using email). For example, your most recent mail stated:
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and my mailer, in response to your mailer, will likely state:
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
which intelligent mail programs then use to reconstruct the thread,
regardless of subject changes in the meantime.
>
> Some of us have been replying to old messages and changing the subject for
> over 20 years. Don't expect us to change to suit your wishes.
Then you've been doing it wrong for 20 years. If you can't be bothered to
copy and paste email addresses to properly start a thread, then be sure
you first delete the irrelevant headers.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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