Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [LibraOffice-Users] - DONT use> Reply to < for a new thread

On 2011-07-03, Larry Gusaas wrote:

> On 2011/07/03 3:26 PM  Tom Davies wrote:
> > Sorry, i didn't notice this because i don't use Nabble or Gmane for the emailing
> > list.  I just use my normal email-client and i imagine most new users do too.
> > Still, it's good to know for the future so thanks for that Hal
> It has nothing to do with using Nabble or Gmane.

I don't know about Nabble, but Gmane is nntp, where message references
work the same way (or at least in a very similar way). So using reply-to
to "start a new thread" screws people in Gmane too.

Please just do what you want to do. If you want to send a new message,
and not reply to some other message, *do not* use the "reply to" feature
of your client, use the "new message" "compose mail" or equivalent. It's
not hard to copy and paste the list address.

Likewise, if you want to reply to another message, use "reply to", not
"new message", "compose mail".

Just like when you set your power supply to run on 230V (and *not* 110V)
when you use your computer in a 230V power network.

> Most e-mail clients can be set to sort incoming messages into threads.
> BTW please set your client to attribute messages you are replying to
> so people can tell what you write and what you are replying to.

Tom seems to be using Yahoo webmail. From the little experience I had
with "webmails", they rarely do a good job of not screwing emails.

Tom's mails have attribution, it's just in some uncommon format (MS
Outlook-like?).

I'm lucky enough to have a client that has an Outlook-deuglify feature,
but it still can't "fix" the outermost attribution in some emails, I
just fix these manually.

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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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