[PLUG] This isn't a new thread

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

(was: [PLUG] User Accounts)

<sermon>

  Do you see the line in the headers that says something like

  References: <20010531080250.C31156@purple.com>

  That line comes from the original mail in the thread. The result is
  that, even though you've changed the subject line, you haven't started
  a new thread (as far as a thread-aware email client is concerned).

  Why care about threads? Well, thread-aware email clients (such as
  mutt, but there are others) provide commands for manipulating entire
  threads and for representing those threads by the subject line of the
  original message in the thread. And this is a good thing.

  So, please, when you want to post something new to the plug list (or
  anyone else, for that matter), don't do it by replying to some old
  message. Do it by making a new one. This is what aliases (nicknames)
  are for.


  (Do you know how annoying it is to look, for example, for a social
  note from last week only to find, in the end, that it has sorted 2000
  messages further back because it was "a new message" that was created
  by replying to an old one from a couple months ago and changing the
  subject.)

</sermon>

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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