Re: [libreoffice-users] All of the messages in Nabble are suddenly going into the "AndrOpen Office" thread!

Well said, Mark. One more comment inserted below.



On February 7, 2014 12:09:58 PM PST, Mark Bourne <libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> I don't know if it's the case here, but people do sometimes reply to an
> existing email to the list and just change the subject line (presumably
> to save looking up the address for the list). That isn't enough to make
> it a different thread - there are separate headers in the email

Specifically References: and In-Reply-To:

> which 
> link messages into threads - so the new message shows up as part of the
> original thread.
>
> Another disadvantage of doing this is that some other people use mail 
> clients or news readers which they can set to automatically ignore any 
> further messages in threads they're not interested in or can't help 
> with. So those people wouldn't see the messages asking about a
> different 
> problem in an existing thread, when they might otherwise have been able
> to help with that new problem.
>
> So it can be in the asker's best interest to create a new thread rather
> than replying in an existing one. To do that, they need to create a 
> completely new email and send it to the list address (users AT 
> global.libreoffice.org in this case).
>
> Mark

-- 
Jim


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