On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
James Richards wrote:
Secondly, I had always previously understood the instruction about
starting new topics to mean that I should no start an interesting
discussion about global variables under a subject line referring
to mail threading, but should change the subject line to match the
discussion. I can't be the only person who uses the 'Reply'
command to get a new message all set up and then edits the subject
line to reflect the topic. Indeed I do this all the time since
any attempt to reply to the digest (even on an existing topic)
always produces a 'Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol ##, Issue ##'
subject.
For most people, the only advantage of using Reply rather than New
Message (or equivalent command/buttons) is that it fills in the
destination address. Most modern mail clients allow some form of
"address completion" so (for me), a new reply involves typing 4
extra characters "H" "o" "w" TAB
Once I realized the trouble I was causing myself and others by
starting a new topic by replying to an unrelated topic and then
editing the subject line, I stopped that practice at once.
I find that it is really no problem to start a new message, then drag
and drop, or copy/paste the to: address from another message in OS X
Mail.app. It only saved about two mouse clicks to do it the lazy
reply way.
I HOPE OTHERS GET THE HINT!
I can tell who does it the lazy reply way, because theirs is the
first unrelated message added to a thread I am keeping.
Unless people object strongly, I may send out occasional private
reminder messages to folks who are unaware of the threading trouble
this causes some of us who are keeping some of these threads locally.
Dennis
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