Ed Lazor wrote:
-----Original Message----- Actually its proper email etticate.. look it up if you don't believe me..
That sounds like a copout. Could present formal references to back this up? I'm trying to substantiate your claims, but a Google search failed to bring up anything relevant when searching with the keywords of etiqette, email, and replying.
Here are some of the references that did come up:
http://coco.essortment.com/emailetiquette_rtqh.htm http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/etiquette.htm http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/success/sl6.htm
Also, back to my original question, what are you seeing that denotes the difference between whether I reply or create a new message when starting a new topic? After all, I took care of changing the recipient list and the subject field. Is header information different? Does your email client sort or group messages differently?
-Ed
Ed,
When you *reply* to a message, most mail clients (including yours) add a header like this:
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That stuff in between the < and > is the message-id of the replied-to message.
This tells the recipient's email client that your message is a reply, not a new message, despite your efforts to change the subject and recipients. Many email clients use that header to decide which thread a message belongs to. That's actually the point of the header.
I'm not interested in a debate over the relative merits of different mail clients and view modes. The point is simply this: Many people choose to view their mail in threaded mode. When you start a new topic by replying to an old topic, you disrupt that organization.
Ultimately, etiquette is about choosing to accomodate the needs of other people, not about rules. You didn't know the effect you were having before, but now you do. What you do with that information is up to you, but I would suggest that starting a new message is no more work than changing the subject and recipients list of a reply.
Michael
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