er, it's that friendly stern voice again...
For those of you who don't know, threadwhacking is when you
1) pick a random email to smug (or anyone else)
2) change the subject of a message
3) put in unrelated content
and
4) hit send.
This has one advantage -- to you, the sender, of not having to bother
writing a new message. Er, actualyl, when you think about it, there
really isn't much gain.
The disadvantage is that in an emailer that gathers message by thread,
messages appear randomly and threading is essentially destroyed.
Emailers use a variety of methods to gather messages into threads and
often that info is hidden from view by default.
The short version is, if you want to start a new thread, please start
with a clean new message; if you want to adapt an existing thread
because it's changed its nature (gone off at a tangent), then please
rename the subject as "New subject (was: old subject)" so that the
threading makes sense. Do please make the effort to keep to these as it
makes reading a lot of mail or archiving discussions infinitely easier.
While I was away it seemed to be on the increase, maybe because I was
exclusively using the iPhone which has nifty threading now (making
threadwhacking very visible).
Ta.
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