Point taken (by me anyway)
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:51, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> > "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"
> |
> +-"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)"
>
> 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.
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Robert Fisher
www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz
