I wanted to get some clarification on this, so that I don't goof up. Like Andy, I will sometimes reply to an email on a list if I want to post a new message, and just change the subject. Are you saying that the original subject still remains in the message somewhere?
Granted, it's laziness on my part, but I didn't think I was doing anything wrong... Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Peltonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Redhat list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:09 AM Subject: Re: how do i install a c-compiler for redhat 9 > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 17:43, Andy Myers wrote: > > (i am a newbie so you may have to be a bit more explicit) > > A tip for a newbie, then: > > You posted a new message to the list by replying to another message (my > message to be explicit). And your message did not have anything to do > with that another (my) message. > > This is bad behaviour as decent mail clients (I suppose your Outlook > Express is not one of them) show message subjects in a threaded view > like this: > > > +-- Great - just another spam block... > | > +-- Re: Great - just another spam block... > > > So your message ended up looking like this in my mail client's message subject view: > > > +-- Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > | > +-- Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > | > +-- Re: how do i install a c-compiler for redhat 9 > > > So instead of being showed as a new message I thought you had replied to > my message and ended up reading a message which I did not intend to read > at all. > > Keeping the threads nice and clean also helps archiving and so for > searching the messages from message archives. > > So please, do not do it again! And no, you are not the only one doing this *sigh*. > > Regards, > Peter > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
