On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:18:37PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> At 12:21 PM -0700 5/26/01, Terry Cooper wrote:
> >I would appreciate feedback on how to post to an existing thread instead of
> >starting a new one.
>
> Huh? This isn't Usenet. Subject lines are whatever you want them to
> be (not that they can't be on Usenet or chat rooms, of course).
>
> New words in the title, new "thread." If you don't change the words
> in the Subject: line, it looks like an existing thread. It's how
> we've been doing things in mail for 20 years.
Fortunately, mail readers have improved a little in 20 years. I use
mutt, which sorts by thread even if the Subject: line changes. I
presume it uses the In-Reply-To: and References: headers to do an
approximation of Usenet threads.
So Terry, to answer your question, you should reply to an existing
message in the email "thread," but then again few of us are using
threaded mailreaders so it probably doesn't make a big difference.
-Declan
