Lisa Casey wrote: > > and asking you the same: please stop mailing new questions by > > replying to some other mail. Every email program has something > > like a "New message" button, please use it! > > I'm not sure why this was CC'ed to me.
Because in your message with the subject "spamassassin lint" you replied to Jason Lixfeld's message titled "BCP for calling per-user SA after sa-exim" and it did not have anything to do with that discussion. > Anytime I have started a new thread on this list, I have started out > by replying to some other message (just to get the > users@spamassassin.apache.org e-mail address in the To: field > (deleting any others that might be in there), then I completely > delete the subject, retype a new one, completely delete the text in > the body of the message then type my message. Gosh that seems like a lot of work. It would seem to be easier just to start a new message and send it to users@spamassassin.apache.org without doing all of that deleting. Less error prone too. > This shouldn't break threading AFAIK. Yes, that breaks threading because you are replying to a message and your reply will be threaded in with that other message. If you know what you are doing and completely obliterate all of the previous headers then you can successfully do this. But it is very easy to get wrong and much more work. I read mailing list mail in a mail reader. It is mail after all. I can't show you my mail reader. But this can be shown by looking at an archive of the list. Here is a pointer to the gmane site. There is no way for me to point to this index in particular so you would just need to look down for the 4-Nov-2004 article with the above subjects. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general See how your message is threaded in with the others? Look for other threads where the subject line changes in mid thread. Most of those are from people "thread-stealing". Thread-stealing is considered rude by many people on the 'net. > This is the same way I created this e-mail. And it is also threaded under "BCP for calling per-user SA after sa-exim". People not interested in that thread will delete the entire discussion and never see your message because your message will be deleted along with that other discussion. > If this really doesn't work for this list just let me know. It does not work. Please don't do it. Bob
