"PITA" - well spoken.
While we are on the topic of reply-tos being a pain.
I find it annoying when someone starts a new topic by replying to a completely unrelated message, and then changing the subject line.
Why is this a pain, you may ask.
Any decent mail reader can view messages in threaded mode. Threaded mode means replys are "underneath" the replied-to message. For example, a hypothetical discussion may look something along these lines (monospace is your friend):
"problem with foo on Linux"
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+-"Re: problem with foo on Linux"
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+-"Re: problem with foo on Linux"
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+-"Re: problem with foo on Linux"
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+-"Bar on linux (was Re: problem with foo on Linux)"For mailing lists with a number of discussions active at once, threading is extremely useful, particularly if you aren't interested in certain discussions (like, say, offtopic arguments about the insides of the DNS).
If someone then starts a new topic by replying to a completely unrelated message, the headers still retain the reply-to information, so the new message gets buried in some unrelated discussion. I see:
"problem with foo on Linux" | +-"Re: problem with foo on Linux" | +-"Re: problem with foo on Linux" | +-"Re: problem with foo on Linux" | | | +-"Bar on linux (was Re: problem with foo on Linux)" | +-"Anybody want to buy two gronkles?"
No! If you start a new subject, compose a new message. And no complaining about not remembering the clug list email - that's what your address book is for.
Pet peeve for the day. Cheers, Carl.
