It's common to do the following in this case: Reply to the thread, but change the title from:
Re: MacGroup: Rant to Something Was: MacGroup: Rant Someone looking at a threaded archive can see that the 2nd question came from the first, however the title has changed to mail users. When the email is not linked to the mail list, ie) a rant about Java in general and not Java on the Mac, then it's common to prepend the subject with OT: for Off Topic. At least mail lists I've lived on have been this way. Hen On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > Ok folks. > > When someone sends a message to the listserve they usually give it a subject > (like Rant). When someone else replies to the first person's message it's > subject becomes Re: Rant. This system makes it easy to follow the discussion > about the first question. > > If someone does this (and it was done recently-by two different people-with > a message I sent to the listserve) and the originator of a message is trying > to follow the thread about her/his question then all of a sudden there's an > entirely different conversation going on and the original questioner is left > wondering what's going on. > > It is confusing, not to mention rude, to use someone else's question to post > your own question on an entirely different subject. > > Just in case you don't know the address of this listserve it is: > > macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > > Harry, > > > Harry Jacobson-Beyer > Surveyor of the Passing Scene! > > http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ > What a strange, long, trip it is! > > remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast > you go coming down! > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
