On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:29 pm, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > 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...
No, not the subject. If you can view All Headers of an e-mail message, you will see a header "References". This keeps track of which message is a reply to what message *regardless* of the subject. Any sane e-mail client that can do threading will use that header to order the threat, so eventhough you changed the subject, it will still be in the same threads as the message you're replying to (with different subject). That is confusing if you read e-mail with threading enabled. But threading has a lot of advantages. So basically you mess up people's thread if you simply reply to an e-mail to start a new message (thread). I googled a bit to get this, if you want to learn more about threading: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/message-threading.html RDB > > 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 -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
