On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:55 -0500, Paul Speed wrote: > > Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:16 +0100, Paul Melis wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Alasdair Campbell wrote: > >>> Hi all, I am new to this list but was inspired to join the mailing list > >>> following your landmark release of 2.8.0 Congratulations to all > >>> > >> Welcome! A point of nettique though: please don't start a new subject by > >> replying to existing post, but simply make a new post to the list. In > >> this case you replied to a thread on memory leak detection on windows, > >> to which you post has nothing to add. > > > > Hi Paul, thank you for replying, but I have no idea what you are talking > > about with respect to nettique (sic). As sure as I am living, I did not > > reply to any post, and simply started a new thread. There is absolutely > > no reference to any other post in my email, well not that I can see?? Am > > I crazy, or what? Can anyone on this list support Paul's view, and if so > > explain what I did to offend. > > How did you "start a new thread"? What e-mail client are you using? > > The message you submitted had as reference the following message IDs in > its header: > <20090211143545.0360f.403984.r...@web09-winn.ispmail.private.ntl.com> > <4992ed99.8000...@cm-labs.com> > <4992f614.3030...@codeware.com> > <4992fad9.4000...@cm-labs.com> > <10cf64e606897b4999da59c84ed149682a2...@oxfadc001.aristechnologies.com> > <7ffb8e9b0902120431j1341290eq20fec810c936b...@mail.gmail.com> > <006c01c98d13$4f486790$edd936...@com> > <op.uo8qoc0urh8...@sukender1> > <10cf64e606897b4999da59c84ed149682a2...@oxfadc001.aristechnologies.com> > > Which happen to be the message IDs from all of the messages in the > "memory leak" thread. > > So, it looks to all of us who use threaded e-mail clients that you > simply had the last message in that thread selected and hit the "Reply" > button. Thus it looks like you are continuing that thread instead of > starting a new one. > > Unless your mail client is doing something very strange. > -Paul > Oh my goodness, mea culpa. I did say I was newbie. I simply chose a message and changed the subject. This has worked for me on countless mailing lists without complaint. So sorry, please advise correct procedure for starting a new thread on this list. Sorry Paul M.
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