From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com ([208.42.156.2]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 198i42-000897-66 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:51:06 +0100 Received: from grante.comtrol.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E623E8282 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:51:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:47:09 -0500 From: Grant Edwards To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= Message-ID: <20030424094707.A21265@visi.com> References: <1051089356.1989.29.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <20030423204037.GB26678@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline 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 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, 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