On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Chip Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > It appears that sometimes members of a discussion list will initiate a new > topic > by simply replying to a recent posting and changing the 'Subject:' line. > This > is a handy shortcut to avoid entering a 'To:' line.
And also the opposite: folks who send a fresh note and just mimic the subject header. Probably because they use different mail agents for receiving and sending. But it forks the discussion and creates two threads with further responses landing in either thread. Annoying too. My experience is that gmail works very well for subscribing to mailing lists. It give much control over what you send (so you don't send HTML transcripts of it). It's very handy to find things again and avoids wasting time trying to file or save important things. Since the mailing lists are public anyway, privacy issues are less important. But yes, I also know some are not allowed to use it at the office :-( Rob
