Well said, Mark. One more comment inserted below.
On February 7, 2014 12:09:58 PM PST, Mark Bourne <[email protected]> wrote: > >I don't know if it's the case here, but people do sometimes reply to an >existing email to the list and just change the subject line (presumably >to save looking up the address for the list). That isn't enough to make >it a different thread - there are separate headers in the email Specifically References: and In-Reply-To: >which >link messages into threads - so the new message shows up as part of the >original thread. > >Another disadvantage of doing this is that some other people use mail >clients or news readers which they can set to automatically ignore any >further messages in threads they're not interested in or can't help >with. So those people wouldn't see the messages asking about a >different >problem in an existing thread, when they might otherwise have been able >to help with that new problem. > >So it can be in the asker's best interest to create a new thread rather >than replying in an existing one. To do that, they need to create a >completely new email and send it to the list address (users AT >global.libreoffice.org in this case). > >Mark -- Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
