On 11.10.13 10:25, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I want to make a kind request that when you want to start a new topic, > not to use a current message and just to change the subject. This has > the result of mixing topics when one displays the messages in > conversation format. Rather start a new message altogether with your own > topic. This way we can keep track of the many messages that we receive.
It would be wonderful if everyone understood that effect, but evidently quite a few people on various lists don't group messages by thread in their inbox, and so are quite unaware that they are thereby nailing a new thread (mail topic) into the middle of the flow of the existing thread. It can be done without that penalty though, as many here could explain, if the "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers are deleted (manually or automatically), in addition to changing the "Subject:", when replying to a post as a quick way to fill in the "To:" header. If that all sounds a bit complicated, then maybe a mail address alias would make it easier to start a new thread. E.g. for mutt: in .muttrc: alias emc [email protected] ¹ would allow "To: emc" to suffice to follow Marius' advice. (There is probably an equivalent in every Mail User Agent.) Incidentally, Marius, some MUAs allow the interloper to be cut out of the unrelated prior thread after receipt, and be displayed locally as a new thread. E.g. in mutt, scroll to the interloper, and hit #. That deletes the offending headers at the receive end, unlinking the post from the thread, as a knowledgeable poster would have done before sending. (Well, mostly. We all forget, now and then.) Erik ¹ Paranoia precludes offering any real email address for spammers to harvest. -- manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others. - Ray Simard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
