Saluton Carsten :) On Wed 10 Jun 2009 16:49 +0200, Carsten Agger <[email protected]> dixit: >> As always: in my opinion is up to Bram to dictate rules for the >> mailing list and it's _impossible_ to really enforce them for already >> subscribed members. It all depends upon people being well behaved and >> honoring netiquette :( > > My own mail client threads by subject, so i did not occur to me that > by hitting reply and changing the subject entirely I'd not start a new > thread. My *intention* was to start a new thread.
This was not about you, and certainly your name shouldn't have been used as an example. Anyway, and since you stepped into the conversation, I'll explain something to you. Although many email clients (including the one I'm using now, GMail web interface) group threads by subject, in reality threading is done using the "Message-ID" and "In-Reply-To" headers, usually. Depending on the client, when you reply a message (even if you change the subject) those headers will maintain the thread. So you will end up with a new thread hanging from an old thread. It's not your fault if you didn't know this, specially if you didn't have the intention of "hijacking" the thread, but it is your fault using a reply to start a new thread: even if you change the subject you are *replying* anyway ;)))) Don't do it next time ;) > I'm sorry if you feel bad about this. As I said, it did not occur to me > that the current list would work this way. I don't think anybody feels bad about this, it's just that threading has a purpose, and if you break it you make information a bit more difficult to find next time anybody is searching for answers. Forget about this and, as you said, get it right next time :) -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
