[Gambas-user] Gambas Mailing List Etiquette

[T Lee Davidson]

On 4/12/20 3:49 AM, Christof Thalhofer wrote:
> No. The right thing would have been to post a new mail with the
> subject"Gambas Mailing List Etiquette" to start a new thread.
> 
> The original thread was hijacked* as can be seen here:
> 
> https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2020-April/thread.html#68949
> 
> This can also be seen in the screenshot of Claws Mail, which is able to
> track and display threads as it should be as well.
> 
> I think the Google mail client (I don't know it) does not know threads
> and therefore cannot display them. But this is not the standard. What
> Google Mail seem to do is very old poor man's threading by just sorting
> threads by subject and time.
> 
> * Hijacking a thread: Whenever a mail is replied to, the reply is part
> of a thread. So if someone wants to discuss a new topic, it should never
> be in a reply.

Okay. Well then based on that, Christof, the thread was actually hijacked here:
https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2020-April/068957.html

I don't see any way in Thunderbird to modify the header of a reply so as to strip the thread id. So, I guess one would have to 
copy 'n' paste to a new mail.


-- 
Lee