From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailout.fastq.com ([204.62.193.66]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 198R9q-00053X-8F for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:47:58 +0100 From: Russ Dill To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel In-Reply-To: <20030423204037.GB26678@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <1051089356.1989.29.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <20030423204037.GB26678@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Message-Id: <1051131065.1476.88.camel@russ.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 23 Apr 2003 13:51:05 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org cc: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: List etiquette. List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 13:40, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Wed, 23 April 2003 10:15:56 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > Please ensure that you do not try to start a new thread > > by just replying to an existing list message and changing the subject, > > for similar reasons. > > Why exactly? I kind of like the habit of changing the subject in the > middle of a thread where appropriate, like "foo (was: bar)". He doesn't mean a topic change like, "There is a bug in tool foo blah blah blah" "I like that tool, but I use tool bar blah blah blah" "(New subject) did you know how to do x in tool bar?" He means "I have an oops when I use foo with bar" "(reply) Where can I find the latest CVS snapshot?" Lazy people, not sensible topic shifting