[GRLUG] Social norms

[Benjamin Flanders]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I hoped to remove this conversation from the existing thread because
>  > the existing thread had a lot of great information about 64-bit linux
>  > and didn't want to sully it my meaningless drivel.  I wanted this to
>  > be in a whole new thread so those that want to follow the 64-bit
>  > question can without wading through this stuff.  History has shown
>  > that this topic can get heated and long winded.
>  > I thought I was doing a good thing.  I am sorry if I offended anyone.
>
>  The Subject, at least in "real" mail clients, is not what drives
>  threading.  A reply message contains the message-id of the message to
>  which it is a reply, like:
>
>  In-Reply-To:
>  <fc6bb850805081200q34f88b3bk84395d183a25bbc5 at mail.gmail.com>
>
>  Every message has a [theoretically] unique message-id recorded in the
>  Message-ID header.  A message may also contain a "References" header
>  that contains a list of message-ids that the sending mail client
>  believed related to the thread of the current message in order to help
>  the receiving mail client in case it lacks the immediate parent [in the
>  thread] of the message - remember that e-mail messages can arrive
>  out-of-order relative to when they were actually sent.
>
>  So to create a new thread you must always click "compose" and never
>  "reply".
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I didn't know that. sorry  I use gmail which splits out threads based
on subject only.


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