[mythtv-users] If I get the digest, how do I reply correctly?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:02:37PM +0100, Robin Hill wrote:
> On Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 July 2008 09:57:21 Allen Edwards wrote:
> > > Nick Morrott wrote:
> > > > Email clients use the In-Reply-To header to determine whether a reply

Unless they're gmail, apparently.

> > > > should be threaded or not. This is why replying to a message and
> > > > changing the subject (and topic) to something different is so frowned
> > > > upon.
> > >
> > > Well, I guess I have been doing it wrong.  Thanks!
> > 
> > Same here. I always thought that changing the subject line, when appropriate, 
> > was the correct thing to do.
> > 
> > This is as opposed to starting a new thread. Sometimes folks want to
> > be able to see how the subject has morphed, but new readers should
> > have some idea of what's being discussed.
>
> It is appropriate if the topic has morphed. It's not appropriate when
> you want to start an entirely new topic. Some people seem to be too
> lazy to type in (or copy & paste) the list address so just reply to a
> random email instead.

Sure.  And sometimes, people like me who know better do that, and forget
to delete that header...

Cheers,
-- jra
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