This request is easy enough to explain: When you want to start a thread/conversation/discussion, don't try to "save time" by taking an old email and clicking on "reply".
Doing so copies all the hidden headers of the old email into your new one, and causes some software to assume you are really replying to that conversation. Instead, open a brand new email, put in the address of the list (cut/paste, addressbook, or just plain old typing) and send the mail. The readers then see it as an independent item, and it starts its own new thread. Shimon ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:59 -0600 >From: Steve Mitchell <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: A modest request >To: [email protected] > >I’ve seen that in other mailing lists and wondered why it happened. I > >don’t actually know what you are talking about, though. I am going to h >ave >a hard time behaving in ways that you think are polite if I don’t know > >what it is I may be doing wrong. > >How is the list threading by your client? > >I read this list at http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html. It >appears to be threaded there by Subject line, with some allowance for >headings such at “Re”. It occasionally splits a thread though, perhap >s >because of a misspelling or a trailing space. > >Alan Ackerman > >Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com > > >I totally agree. I want to be a good citizen of the 'LIST', but there are >parts of this discussion I've never heard of. > >Where do we 'learn' the proper procedure(s)? >It seems someone with the proper knowledge needs to create a 'How To'. or >If one exists point it out. > >Steve Mitchell >Sr Systems Software Specialist >Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas >(785) 291-8885 > >'There are no degrees of Honesty-you're either Honest or you're not! > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
