Dave, Jonathan, On Monday 19 March 2007 10:35, Dave Cotton wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:13 -0400, Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon > Dancing > > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm a new OpenSUSE user, after years of FreeBSD and other Linux > > distros, and I've been extremely pleased with my week long > > experiment with OpenSUSE. I'll be documenting my odyssey a little > > more on my blog. > > And still do not know how to use mailing lists correctly. > > New subjects require a clean start and not using incoming messages > with there titles and content wiped out.
I usually assume that people do this because they do not understand that issuing their mailer's "reply" command (for the convenience of getting a destination address pre-entered) and replacing the "Subject:" is not the same thing as using the "new message" command and entering both an address and a subject. The difference is that when you use the reply command, the created message gets headers, usually hidden, that link it into the topic thread of of the message being (pseudo-) replied to. When threading-enabled email clients receive such messages, they associate them with the other messages in that topic. So in the future, don't use reply to start a new topic. If entering the address is tedious, create an address book entry. KMail has the nice ability to associate a posting address with each folder. The feature is meant for mailing lists, bug I use it even for folders that I use for personal correspondence with a specific individual. Jonathan: Since you're switching to KDE, KMail is highly recommended. It's a very good, very powerful and generally easy-to-use mail client. (KMail can even repair these erroneous pseudo-replies that should have been new posts through the use of its header manipulation filter actions and manually appplied filters.) > -- > Dave Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
