[Gambas-user] Gambas Mailing List Etiquette

[Christof Thalhofer]

Am 11.04.20 um 16:54 schrieb T Lee Davidson:
> On 4/11/20 8:54 AM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>> No, while I agree that thread hijacking shouldn't be done, thread
>> splitting is different thing. It means when you reply to a thread
>> you change the subject line, either by adding unnecessary "Re:" or
>> otherwise edit it.
> 
> I did that when the topic of the sub-thread diverged significantly
> from the original thread and it appeared that a discussion regarding
> the new topic would continue. This was done so that people would know
> it was a different topic and could ignore it if they weren't
> interested. Is that bad practice?

IMO yes, because normally if you answer to a mail belonging to a thread,
your mail client adds a "References" (or "In-Reply-To") header which
points to the mail(s) you have answered.

Mail clients which are able to display conversations as threads will
normally sort your mail into the threads tree according to these headers
regardless of what you have written in the subject.

If you answer to a mail in a thread with a new subject because in
reality you wanted to start a new thread you have hijacked the original
thread which was the case here.

Mail clients which are only capable of sorting threads by the subject
and stumble over a "Re: " are poorly programmed IMO. This was an issue
about 15 or 20 years ago and I thought it had been solved everywhere in
the meantime. :-/

Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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