On 23/12/2007, Dave Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Troll/Idiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Mailing List netiquette (Was Outlines in Writer) > <snip> > > For those who are concerned about "hijacking", I suggest, as I have > suggested before, that they volunteer to update the guidelines. > > In the meantime, I suggest that more sophisticated email readers be set > to follow threads by subject line when reading this list. If they do > not have that capability, it seems they might be different, but not > necessarily more sophisticated. > > That isn't now email works. There are well defined standards that > clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. follow when told to "sort by > thread/conversation". Embedded in an email header is the message to > which it is a reply. Merely changing the subject line does not affect > this in any way. This is not something specific to this mail list. It > is an adopted internet mail standard which has existed for decades.
The ability to change the subject line *without* affecting the threading is very useful. This is especially true in this list where, for some obscure reason, many messages have the subject set as "[moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE ". Changing that to something meaningful, if it can be done without destroying the thread, is, IMHO, something to be encouraged. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
