[mythtv-users] why do people reply with a new topic?!
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 9 22:52:47 EDT 2003
Chris Germano wrote:
> There are a ton of people on this list that reply to someone else's
> topic with a totally new problem/question that have nothing to do with
> it. Do you guys just not know how to make your own topic or just forget?
> Just email your problem/question with a new subject, not Re:
> [mythtv-users] to someone elses post that has nothing to do with yours.
> I'm completely baffled as to why this happens so much.. it really goes
> against this mailing lists hierarchy system. Just my two sense.
I think the confusion is that some people don't realize that threads are
identified by message IDs, not by the subject line. Changing the
subject doesn't change the 'In-Reply-To' in the message header.
-JAC
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