Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-15 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 06:40 PM 9/14/2016, KnoppixLiveKiller wrote: >Is it really that hard to bottom post? With that things have gotten really ridiculous, so goodbye for good. Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread jim stephens
yes it is. The cursor is at the top of the box with the emails in most readers I've seen, and unless I want to leave a posting long and enter comments thru the body, sometimes top posting works. On 9/14/2016 3:40 PM, KnoppixLiveKiller wrote: Is it really that hard to bottom post?

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread KnoppixLiveKiller
On 09/14/2016 05:30 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: On 9/14/2016 4:58 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote: At 05:42 PM 9/14/2016, Steven M Jones wrote: How do you justify making everybody conform to your preferred behavior? I don't, but the behavior and archiving of this list is bound by the software

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread Ian S. King
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote: > At 06:30 PM 9/14/2016, J. wrote: > > >How is sending a new email any different than replying / changing subject > line? > > The message headers contain data that identify which thread a message is > part of. Subscribers

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 06:30 PM 9/14/2016, J. wrote: >How is sending a new email any different than replying / changing subject line? The message headers contain data that identify which thread a message is part of. Subscribers normally do not see that data because very few people have a reason to look at the

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread jim stephens
On 9/14/2016 3:30 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: On 9/14/2016 4:58 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote: At 05:42 PM 9/14/2016, Steven M Jones wrote: How do you justify making everybody conform to your preferred behavior? I don't, but the behavior and archiving of this list is bound by the software that

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
How is sending a new email any different than replying / changing subject line? A brand-new (not reply) message does not carry the References: header chain from the previous thread. For threading-aware MUAs, this makes sure the new conversation doesn't get buried in the old thread. Or

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
On 9/14/2016 4:58 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote: At 05:42 PM 9/14/2016, Steven M Jones wrote: How do you justify making everybody conform to your preferred behavior? I don't, but the behavior and archiving of this list is bound by the software that it runs under. Dale H. Cook, Contract IT

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 05:42 PM 9/14/2016, Steven M Jones wrote: >How do you justify making everybody conform to your preferred behavior? I don't, but the behavior and archiving of this list is bound by the software that it runs under. Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA

Re: Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/14/16 2:42 PM, Steven M Jones wrote: > On 09/14/16 09:52, Dale H. Cook wrote: >> >> Please do not change the subject line in a thread. > And what's so horrible about that? nothing It has taken twenty years to get to the point on cclk where the subject line changes at all.

Subjects, Topics and Threading

2016-09-14 Thread Steven M Jones
On 09/14/16 09:52, Dale H. Cook wrote: > > Please do not change the subject line in a thread. The subject line > of this thread has been changed twice since it began as "68K Macs > with MacOS 7.5 still in production use..." When you change a subject > line the header information concerning the