On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 08:30 +0100, Shiner wrote: > I'll be surprised if I see this though! > There is something really odd about the way this mailing list works. > <sigh>
Not really. The rules are the same as fairly much every other mailing list or effective email environment I've ever encountered; it's just that they are actually *enforced* (well, in part). See http://david.woodhou.se/email.html if you need to be reminded. But basically: Don't hit 'reply' on an existing message and then change the subject. Your message will *still* be a reply to the one you were looking at when you hit 'reply', and will be part of that thread. This is called "thread hijacking", and is frowned upon because you pollute an existing thread with something completely unrelated. The mailing list checks for this and traps messages for moderation if they have the References: or In-Reply-To: headers that mark them as being a reply, but no 'Re:' in the subject. Conversely, if you *do* want to reply then do so properly so that it *is* part of the thread. The software will also trap messages which *do* have 'Re:' in the subject but don't have the threading headers. This can happen when you reply with certain broken software, or when you reply from a list archive which doesn't include the right headers in its mailto: link. Or if you just do something odd with non-broken software, of course. Other standard rules of etiquette also apply: You quote *only* what you absolutely need to repeat from the previous email for context; not the whole thing. And you place your reply *below* that. We don't have automatic filters for that yet, but it something I've often contemplated. It's not actually hard to find the previous message and *see* if it was quoted in its entirety, and see whether any new content is above or below that. Oh, and the list doesn't accept HTML either, of course. Plain text only. -- dwmw2
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