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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] 'Download KDE'
From:       Mihnea Capraru <mihnea_capraru () yahoo ! de>
Date:       2005-11-20 15:09:50
Message-ID: 20051120150950.84912.qmail () web26307 ! mail ! ukl ! yahoo ! com
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--- Alex Nordstrom <lx@se.linux.org> schrieb:

> Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:41, Mihnea Capraru
> wrote:
> > --- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at> schrieb:
> > > People on this list would be glad to have
> threading
> > > used to group related
> > > postings.
> > 
> > Well, other people have told me to 'stop hijacking
> > threads' and open new ones - even though I was
> > seemingly replying to threads that I myself had
> > opened.
> 
> The mistake is not when you intend to reply to
> threads; it's when you 
> intend to start a new thread by replying to another
> thread and changing 
> the topic.
> 
> Do not simply hit reply to a list message in
> order to start an
> entirely new thread. This will limit your
> audience. Some mail
> readers, like mutt, allow the user to sort by
> thread and then hide
> messages in a thread by folding the thread.
> Folks who do that will
> never see your message.
> 
> Changing the subject is not sufficient. Mutt,
> and probably other
> mail readers, looks at other information in the
> email's headers to
> assign it to a thread, not the subject line.
> Instead start an
> entirely new email.
> 
> 
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific
> 
> Specifically, you started the threads "'Download
> KDE'" and "kde.org 
> versus Wikipedia" by replying to Inge Wallin's post
> in the thread 
> "Desktops in Sweden" (and off-list to Inge as well,
> which is really 
> quite rude), as evidenced by the headers:
> 
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:39:37 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mihnea Capraru <mihnea_capraru at yahoo
> dot de>
> To: inge at lysator dot liu dot se,
> KDE Promo <kde-promo@kde.org>
> In-Reply-To: <200511192225.25278 dot inge at
> lysator dot liu dot se>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Subject: [kde-promo] 'Download KDE'
> 
> (Address obfuscation added.)
> 
> Don't do this. Instead, when you want to start a new
> thread, send a *new 
> message* to kde-promo@kde.org without replying to an
> existing message 
> from the list.

Thank you for the explanation. I have to admit that I
might have thought about the headers myself, but I was
seemingly too lazy/distracted to do it.

Also inadvertently sending a personal reply to Inge
Wallin that was not even a reply was indeed rude of
me. All I can say is please excuse me, and that I'll
take care that it doesn't happen again.

Mihnea



	

	
		
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