> While it looks like doing that works ok in Gmail, don't do that > because it is a lazy user-interface-design decision by Gmail that > is unpopular here because it actually causes problems for everyone else. > > Gmail "conversations" are a thing that exists only in Gmail. They > are a broken simplification of threads that only compare the Subject > text and apparently ignore the actual threading of the message. > > On Debian mailing lists, always use the Gmail compose window to > begin a new *thread*, and use Gmail "reply-to-all" to existing messages, > and also *remove* all individual recipients except the list unless they > have earlier written that they are not subscribed to the list, because that is > Debian mailing-list policy. > > If you merely change the subject line in Gmail when replying, that does > *not* create a new thread, because even though it appears that way in Gmail it > does not appear that way to users of other email software. Sometimes, > doing that is a good idea when you want to indicate that the thread topic has > diverged without actually starting a new thread, but you should understand > that it does not create a new thread for most other people seeing your message. > In this message for example, the prior Subject has nothing to do with what > I am writing now, so it is appropriate for me to edit the subject, > and I have done that. > > To see how messages are actually threaded on this list (which Gmail > does not bother to show you) you can look here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/threads.html > You should be able to find this message there, and see how it is actually > still part of the prior thread. Even though it has a different subject and > to you in Gmail it looks like a different "conversation", to everyone else > it does not look like that.
Ok, thank you, I saw on the archive that this message is on the same thread, although Gmail displays it different I have a question, why should I use "reply to all" instead of "reply", aside that "reply to all" puts the mailing list on copy. Since I should not send the emails directly to someone, I still have to delete the "To:" entry, then I just add the mailing list. Also, I saw that "reply to all" quotes the whole thread. I would not like to bloat the messages with such big quotes.