From: Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>
To: Gentoo-User ML <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:09:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110625100917.1935b4d5@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E0519DA.9030105@badapple.net>
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Am Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:12:26 -0700
schrieb kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>:
> I've noticed this a couple of times this week. A few of you have
> responded to the annoying Fortran thread, changed the subject, started a
> new message, and sent the email starting a new thread.
I have not noticed this. Scanning through the thread, I do not see any subject
changes.
> Because you responded to an existing thread you are not creating a new
> thread and thus and reducing the size of the audience that reads your
> email. Specially I'd have responded to "open source monitoring on
> gentoo", but since I deleted the Fortran thread in its boring entirety I
> didn't even see it until I saw a response further down the chain today.
> Whoever started Fbsplash did the same thing.
For me, both of the threads you mention appear as their own threads (using
claws-mail). So I checked the email sources and could not find any "References"
headers in either of the thread parents. So, perhaps this is a bug in
Thunderbird?
> kashani
HTH
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Marc Joliet
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-25 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 23:12 [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject kashani
2011-06-25 0:09 ` David W Noon
2011-06-25 0:43 ` kashani
2011-06-25 3:31 ` Dale
2011-06-25 12:25 ` David W Noon
2011-06-25 11:47 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-06-25 18:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-25 19:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-06-25 8:09 ` Marc Joliet [this message]
2011-06-25 10:39 ` enno+gentoo
2011-06-25 12:13 ` methylherd
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