Mailing list ettiquete request

[Deepak Saxena]

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.

Thanks,
~Deepak

-- 
Deepak Saxena - dsaxena@plexity.net

How much do you value your freedom? Would you trade your freedom for some
illusion of security? Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

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