Mailing list ettiquete request

[Arizona Adams]

Unfortunately, I haven't mastered filters on Evolution or anything else,
so I tend to read the beginning of a reply, just to make sure that it's
not something new.

But it is rather tedious and there is always the delete key.  Heck, the
Business Journal's daily email gets deleted alot now because I can't see
the pictures.  : )

Kimi Adams

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 18:45, Jim wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 18:31, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> > 
> > I have a small request for all on this mailing list. I'm not 
> > officially involved with the mailing list management, so this is 
> > just my opinionated request, but hopefully others will concurr.
> > 
> > Please do not reply to a post and then change the subject to start 
> > an unrelated thread. Many of us use a threaded email reader and it's 
> > rather annoying to see a sub-thread which has nothing to do with the 
> > original thread in the middle of reading a thread.  Most well written
> > mail clients use the In-Reply-To header to do their threading, so
> > even if you change the subject of a reply, it will still be part
> > of the original thread.  It's good and desirable to start a sub-thread 
> > that's related with a new subject, but putting a for-sale add as a reply 
> > to a thread on playing the LotR cd on Linux, asking about linux ppoe in the 
> > middle of a thread about MP3 players, or asking about disk replacement in 
> > reply to a posting about Kevin Mitnick are examples of sub-threads on
> > this mailing list that should have just been posted as new messages.  
> > 
> > It's not that hard to press the 'm' key to start a new thread instead 
> > of the 'r' key to reply to an existing one.
> 
> OTOH, if the thread is one that you normally delete anyway because of
> whatever constraints, an ooff-subject reply will just get lost in the
> bit bucked.
> 
> The important thing is that even us who do not read threaded still
> either read or delete a post based on the subject.  d works just as fine
> as r does for me ;)
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > ~Deepak
> > 
> > -- 
> > Deepak Saxena - dsaxena@plexity.net
> > 
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> > illusion of security? Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
> > 
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> > 
> -- 
>  Jim
> 
>  Freedom is all we really want