At 5:44 PM +0100 5/6/09, Neil Tungate wrote:
>Rob Danielson wrote:
> > I seem to recall that John uses the on-line Yahoo interface to read
> > list posts which I believe keeps track of message numbers in forming
> > string displays. Most email apps do not. Kevin might be changing the
> > subject as he composes the email off-line but Yahoo is still keying
> > on the message number. Most likely, no one is at fault. Rob D.
>
>Rather than Yahoo message number, threading in email clients such as
>Thunderbird probably uses the "In-Reply-To" header string. I also suffer
>from mixed up threads, which I have always put down to people simply
>replying and changing the title. It's surely not that difficult to
>create a new email to start a new thread - it's certainly considerate to
>other readers.
>
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>*Neil Tungate
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Neil--
I'm certainly guilty of using an existing email from the list,
deleting all the text and changing the subject line. I did not know
that my email app retains invisible history of the email. Makes sense
it would.
If I understand, confusion can be avoided by starting a NEW email
addressed to <> when one is:
(1) Composing a new post to the list with a new Subject
(2) Changing a topic/subject line from an old one to a new one. In
this case, copy the relevant text from the old string that you are
assigning a new string to and paste it in the new, composed email to
<>. Readers will have difficulty
seeing that the extended discussion stemmed from the earlier post
unless you add a phrase like, "(was Please start new topic) in the
subject line.
Good to understand. It wasn't that long ago that people started
_using_ the subject line ;-)
Clear as mud, everyone? Rob D.
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