To all participants on the geda-user mailing list who wish to begin a new thread of discussion:
Whenever you intend to post a message to begin a *new* thread of discussion, do not use the "reply" feature of your e-mail application to do so. Instead, click the "To: gEDA user mailing list <[email protected]>" address in another message from the list, or manually compose your new message to "[email protected]". The "reply" feature is great for capturing the context of a reply because it includes a reference to the original message. The problem with improper use of the "reply" feature is that it clutters the existing thread of discussion with an unrelated, separate thread. There are two negative effects when you use "reply" as a way to post message that is not in fact a reply: (1) To your own detriment, your message is likely to be skipped over by people who are uninterested in the thread to which it was added as a reply. (2) To the detriment of others, it clutters the existing thread of conversation and makes it harder to follow the discussion for other readers. If you don't use a "threaded" view (where messages are displayed as a tree, having each reply as a child of the message to which it is replying), the effects of the "reply" feature are generally not apparent, so this is just a reminder that many readers (and web archives of the list) do read the list in a threaded presentation. (If you haven't tried a threaded view, I do recommend it!) Regards, Colin P.S. I debated whether this message should be a "reply"... ;-) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
