-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2014 02:00 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote:
[that someone else wrote:] >> Please don't hijack an existing thread when you open a new topic. >> You have done this twice on this thread which was originally titled >> "Resizing LVM issue". > > I didn't or at least not on purpose. I just reply to the list on a > random message and make a new topic of it for light convenience. I > didn't know it could do any harm. And actually, I even don't > understand how you can know that ? Please explain, I will sleep a bit > light less dumber tonight. ;) Every E-mail or newsgroup post made by a standards-compliant mail program contains a theoretically-unique ID number, called the Message-ID header. When you hit Reply on an E-mail using a modern mail client (and quite a few non-modern ones), in addition to generating a new Message-ID for your reply, the mail client creates another header called "In-Reply-To". It copies the Message-ID from the original mail into this new header. Then, when someone receives both the original mail and your reply, their own mail client can use these two headers to figure out that "these two mails belong together, in this order". Some mail clients (such as Thunderbird) can use that information to display a nested hierarchy of "which mail is a reply to which", which I find very useful; others just use it for "conversation view"-type sorting; others ignore it entirely. If someone using a mail client which is configured to not ignore that information receives both messages, they will immediately be able to tell that your message is a reply, even if you changed the Subject line. The essential takeaway from this is that if you want to create a new thread on a mailing list or similar public forum, it's not good enough to just hit Reply on an existing mail and change the Subject line; you need to create a New mail instead, and enter the To address separately. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTrbk5AAoJEASpNY00KDJrshQP/079Ksmz3zW/YZzdfklhcu/H EveeoA64yfEhH01eQ0qbU271O3880ZvtmHF4i5P/tKGmbCLqbEd72Gkcni0IW9mf CNfREwlO/B0h7PAJUrKnMRNezcSSv7pTnTSVRgpfT5qbR+I8eGU8slO7PzFCGOV/ U5dRiWM4uXlfs271AIaMCzXpNhqHoq2UFoGX/19rhmt4ule0aW8EIfuErPufoumK +qfD0rVheTuCyXHYAkldMO+znYTXBsLJRsDrtvMltWj78gCBnlEhQxZ9etR0Vg4K KKxfRpaoQ1dKkZfjBt7khdhIhSnknuNBK0IThaBjGqjYkkAeUug5WwtAWCpxrxsf pcPUbs3mCNa6e0sF7SqLWAmQtGhD/H8LZ2uaB9M8Kfl2yWEDxMOMPU9PPvjzclK8 vlcD+RCad1p7VbwYAcIwHkSfh8vEaspg42J30FXzTCDEBqhp8qXjsbjhfbsXD9dR vIjCdNCCd09wUwoNdHZbTbW3UctWsKOkKRmUyzHkXoOE935OQLoC668wQu29abXJ NqiNMoZDHTfcVT2Dgg7dBCJtt2j5DR5Xm8Jram+6a7QTYA79C+3/2JvyrbkYDWLL miNquFma+QsOpXa+ia7H9T9qzbpp/rkhoqMdrWlUQ/k8HHEEeqVd/R986na1dDD5 SXiljMbaaVJK/hFXFo4L =sSeQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53adb939.7020...@fastmail.fm
