[TriLUG] Message Threads

Cristobal Palmer cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 13:13:49 EDT 2005


Sorry

:(

Lesson learned.

-CMP

On 8/25/05, Lee Fickenscher <elfick at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd just like to shoot out a quick request that if you start a new
> discussion thread that has no relation to a previous thread, please
> do so using a completely new email rather than just replying to a
> previous thread and changing the subject.
> 
> Replying to a previous thread and changing the subject messes up the
> nice threading that many email clients have as they rely on headers
> other than the subject to thread discussions.
> 
> I'm not trying to start a flamewar or point fingers and I'm certainly
> not trying to be judgmental. I assume that people just don't realize
> what effect this has and I'm trying to spread a little knowledge. If
> you do know the effect this has and do it anyway... Quit being so
> lazy :)
> 
> -Lee
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Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student
cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
cmpalmer at ils.unc.edu
ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer <http://ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer>
"Television-free since 2003"



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