From: Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Thu Mar 25 2004 - 16:51:55 PST
On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 01:31 PM, Mike Burrell wrote:
> on 3/25/04 8:02 AM, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I just wanted to remind people what if they are starting a new topic,
>> please
>> don't reply to an existing topic and blank out the subject and body.
>>
>> Some people like to start a new topic by hitting reply on a post,
>> then just
>> deleting the subject and body. But this causes their mail client to
>> still
>> consider the message part of an existing thread, and so messages get
>> attached
>> to threads that are totally unrelated.
>>
>> If you don't know what I mean, here's an illustration from my Mozilla
>> Mail
>> view of Newtontalk in threaded mode showing what happens:
>>
>> http://www.newtontalk.net/threading.gif
>>
>> I brought this up last month but it's worth mentioning again. Just
>> remember,
>> if it's a new topic, start with a fresh message window :) Thanks.
>
> I confess... I'm one of the culprits! Chalk it up to being a newbie on
> the
> list.
Actually, it's got very little to do with being a newbie. I knew
NEWSREADERS tracked threads like that, but I know that at least Outlook
Express (on the Mac) and therefore presumably Entourage parses the
subject line to determine threading. Which is very frustrating, as
other lists I've been a part of put their little [WXYZ] designator
BEFORE the 'Re:', which screwed up the threading. At any rate, I'm not
even sure some mailers even parse or keep the header lines
"References:" or "In-Reply-To:", I've never thought to check. BTW, I'm
not sure what OS X's Mail uses for threading clues, but I've never
noticed any problem with non-related items in a thread.
So, anyway, don't feel too bad, this is actually something that had
never occurred to me and I've been online in one way or another for
over 20 years.
- Eric.
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