Do you know what, I thought that was the iPhone not threading properly.... Sent from my iPhone
On 7 Aug 2010, at 14:53, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
