On Sunday 17 June 2007 18:54, Stevens wrote: > OK, Patrick, and others, let me take one last stab at this. > > First, Schultz said:
There is no 't' in my surname. And I do not like to be referred to by my family name alone. > > Please learn not hijack existing threads. Using your mailer's Reply > > function (for the convenience of getting the To: address filled in > > for you) followed by complete replacement of the Subject: is _not_ > > the way to start a new topic. Use your mailer's "new message" > > command. > > I guess I don't fully understand that one. OK. There is an optional header in each email that is a reply to an existing message, In-Reply-To:, that links that message to the one to which it replies. This allows mail clients to display messages in a hierarchical view. Only when a new message is posted, one that is not a reply to an earlier message, is the In-Reply-To: header not present. Whenever you use the "reply" function of your email client, it takes the Message-Id: header field of the message being "replied" to and uses its value in the In-Reply-To: field. Thus, regardless of the content of the Subject: header, your message is displayed by receiving mail clients in relationship to the message to which it is a reply, even if you did not intend it to be such a reply. That is why it is inappropriate to use the "reply" function when you're starting a new topic. If you want to be spared the effort of entering the destination (To:) address, use an address book entry or other feature of your mail client to free you of this tedium. Like many users of KDE on Linux, I use KMail, and it allows each mail folder to be associated with a mailing list, including its posting address. Thus, I never have to enter such repetitive information. I just issue the "New Message To List" command, and proceed directly to entering the Subject: and thence to the content of the message. > ... > > Fred Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
