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On Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 09:57:28 AM EDT, Ken Pogran via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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--></style><div><div class="yiv7897790932WordSection1"><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">(Replying to Steve, but starting a completely new thread for this discussion…)</p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">Of course it’s not good practice to start a new discussion simply by REPLYing to a message on some other topic—even though that may be the easiest way to send a message to the group.</p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">But it’s also not sufficient to use REPLY but edit the Subject: line to change the topic. Here’s why:</p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">Email clients use several different methods to figure out how to group incoming messages in threads to show the user (assuming the user has configured their client to group messages in threads; some folks prefer to have each message shown individually).</p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">The problem is that, while some email clients group messages together based on the text of the Subject: line, other clients group messages using clues in the message headers that you don’t usually see—in particular, the In-Reply-To: header line that points to a previous message in the thread. When an email client does that (which, technically, is the <i>right</i> way for a client to group messages, IMO), an email message created by a sender using REPLY but completely changing the subject line will <i>still</i> be threaded together with the messages with the original Subject: line. The resulting presentation of the message thread to the recipient will look weird, with messages with different Subject: lines grouped together, linked together by the hidden In-Reply-To threading.</p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">The bottom line is: to start a new topic, <i>always</i> compose a new message from scratch; <i>never</i> do it be REPLYing to a previous message, even if you completely change the Subject: line!<br><br>Ken Pogran (who notes that email has come a long way since RFC-733)</p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">On 8/24/24, 12:51 PM, "LCTG on behalf of Steve Isenberg via LCTG" <lctg-bounces+pogran=<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:alum.mit.edu@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:alum.mit.edu@lists.toku.us">alum.mit.edu@lists.toku.us</a> on behalf of <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:</p></div></div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;color:#0B5394;">Gentlepeople,</span></p></div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;color:#0B5394;">Many of us use the subject of the email as a clue as to what it is talking about and to determine whether we want to bother reading it.</span></p></div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;color:#0B5394;">Therefore you can help those of us trying to sort the ones-worth-reading from the ones-going-to-trash by changing the subject to match content.</span></p></div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;color:#0B5394;">Thank you,</span></p></div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;color:#0B5394;">-steve</span></p></div></div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 11:28 AM ggamota--- via LCTG <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;"><div><div><div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">I have used Marc Sherman 781 662 4576</span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">George</span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor;"><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> LCTG <lctg-bounces+ggamota=<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:stma-llc.com@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:stma-llc.com@lists.toku.us">stma-llc.com@lists.toku.us</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>larryjfreier--- via LCTG<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 24, 2024 11:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Jonathan Goode' <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:jonathan.goode@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jonathan.goode@gmail.com">jonathan.goode@gmail.com</a>>; 'Lexington Computer Group New Address Distribution' <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Meeting Reminder: Windows Package Manager, presented by Drew King. 10AM ET Wednesday, August 14, 2024. Lexington Computer and Technology Group</p></div></div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p><p style="margin-left:47.55pt;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal">Would anyone be able to recommend an appliance service person? I believe my Maytag washing machine has sprung a leak. </p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><p style="margin-left:.5in;" class="yiv7897790932MsoNormal"> </p></div></div>
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