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From: methylherd <listen@quantentunnel.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:13:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106251413.47944.listen@quantentunnel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110625100917.1935b4d5@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de>

Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2011, 10:09:17 schrieb Marc Joliet:
> 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

same here, no thread problems with kde-base/kmail-4.4.11.1

Maybe you should really check your client.

Greets



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-25 12:15 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
2011-06-25 10:39   ` enno+gentoo
2011-06-25 12:13   ` methylherd [this message]

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