On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 19:27 +0000, Robert Osfield wrote: > Hi Alasdair, > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Alasdair Campbell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Oh you've probably been causing the same problems elsewhere too, but > others have been more patient :-) > > The problem isn't with the actual mailing list but in the way that > different mail clients handle the mail header. Some ignore the mail > header and just thread by the subject line, others use the mail header > and if they do then they will see all your posts attached to the wrong > threads. > > By just posting to osg-users directly rather than the tempting route > of reply to and amend an exisiting post you keep all mail clients > happy :-) > > Robert.
OK, now I understand. I use Evolution on Debian, and it seems to do its threading on Subject only. I was unaware there was any other way. Many thanks for your patience. Kind regards, Alasdair. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
