On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:40:10PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Craig Latta craig@netjam.org wrote:
Hoi David--
Cool! But please use a new thread when starting a new thread on the
mailing list? I kill threads when I'm no longer interested in them, and don't want to miss out on stuff which is actually new.
Hi Craig, you've mentioned this a few times, and sometimes I wondered if I was doing it right. Could you please confirm?
You're asking if one is replying to a email, but changing the subject-matter of that conversation, then please change the Subject-line of the email. And, optionally(?), put the old subject line inside parentheses prefiexed by "was:").
The purpose of this convention is to let emails be well-formed; their subjects matching the bodies and not wandering into other subjects. This would be helpful for searching email later too..
Hi Chris,
In this case, I think that caused a problem for a different reason. Out of convenience (and this is something I will not do again), I sometimes start a new mail message by "replying" to an old one, then changing to my new subject line. I had assumed (without ever bothering to check) that mail threading is done based on subject line, and had not noticed that the mail headers contain the "In-Reply-To:" information that no doubt is used for connecting the mail threads.
So in the future I will not use "reply to" unless actually replying to something.
Dave