- Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com> wrote:
> This post brings up the topic of mailing list
> etiquette.
>
> When creating a new post to a mailing list, please
> create
> a new email in your MUA ( mail user agent: Outlook,
> etc )
>
> Why is that?
>
> Because when you reply to an email on a list and
> then
> change the subject line, as has been done in this
> thread,
> the result is the new subject is linked to the old
> subject
> via the mail headers.
>
> Ergo, MUA's that know how to handle email threads (
> Evolution,
> Pine, Eudora, maybe even Outlook ) bunch your new
> topic together
> with the previous one.
>
> So please, when you have a new topic, start a new
> thread.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared
well, if you want anyone to actually read it.
When the volume of the list is high, once there have
been about 10 replies on a topic, I begin to just
discard all replies to that thread, figuring that
anything useful has already been covered.
after seeing the rash of "set digest" emails this
morning, I think that other agree that there is simply
too much traffic to be examining this list real-time.
just my opinion.
Pd
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Received on Tue Jan 27 2004 - 11:44:41 CST
