On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Dale H. Cook <radiot...@juno.com> wrote:
> At 06:30 PM 9/14/2016, J. wrote: > > >How is sending a new email any different than replying / changing subject > line? > > The message headers contain data that identify which thread a message is > part of. Subscribers normally do not see that data because very few people > have a reason to look at the full headers of a message. Replying to an > existing thread without changing the subject maintains that data. Replying > to an existing thread but changing the subject line also maintains that > data, which identifies the reply as part of the original thread. In both > cases the message appears in the list archives as part of the original > thread. > > Starting a new thread with a new subject assigns new data identifying the > new thread. It appears in the list archives as part of a new thread, > independent from the original thread. That is part of the way in which > mailing list software, in general, works. > > Oh boy, oh boy! We haven't had a 'mailing-list-behavior' thread in, oh, days! I was getting bored with all the conversation about vintage hardware and software - it was so, well, meaningful. We haven't had a good food-fight here in... days! -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
