From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <postmaster@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: List etiquette.
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:47:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030424094707.A21265@visi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030423204037.GB26678@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>; from joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:40:37PM +0200
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:40:37PM +0200, 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)".
>
> You are the boss, but I'd like to know the rationale.
If you don't change the In-Reply-To: header, a decent MUA will
thread the new article with the old thread. It doesn't belong
there (or you wouldn't have changed the topic).
If you want to reply to a message and start a new thread, make
sure you remove the In-Reply-To: header also. That way you'll
be starting a new thread -- which one must presume is your
intention when you change the Subject: header.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 9:15 List etiquette David Woodhouse
2003-04-23 9:40 ` David Woodhouse
2003-04-23 20:40 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-23 20:51 ` Russ Dill
2003-04-23 21:05 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-24 14:47 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2003-04-24 15:20 ` Jörn Engel
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