On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 12:37 AM Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Over on a technical support list there are actually some prolific > old time posters asking for subject changes in sprawling threads > (and citing the list's FAQ…) but also gmail users asking for people > to *not* do that as it spawns new "conversations" for them. There, > the gmail users are at odds with ancient mailing list etiquette as > followed by a dwindling tech priesthood, but the gmailers now form > more than 30% of the active posting user base of the list.
I don't think the attitudes are at odds. I use Google Workspace, so it is beneficial to me when someone changes the subject line *to indicate that the actual subject matter has changed* - because this causes Google Mail to break it out into a new thread, which is great, because it keeps the new subject matter apart from the old. (This is probably why Google threadbreaks when the subject line changes. If the subject of the conversation changed, then it's a new conversation.) When the subject line is changed but we have NOT changed topics, that is when it becomes confusing to me. -- Hunter Fuller (they) Router Jockey VBH M-1C +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Network Engineering
