Joachim Wagner wrote:
When you reply to report some issues, make sure to change the subject. It is not helpful to keep the release announcement subject in a thread while discussing a specific problem.
Shouldn't the call rather be asking people to start a proper new thread, e.g. click "start a new thread" rather than "reply", if their e-mail client has such a button, or start a new message by clicking on the e-mail address of the mailing list (or by copy and pasting the address)?
The default mail client of the default desktop of openSUSE Leap, i.e. KMail, displays all replies inside the thread regardless of subject changes.
Given that replies are linked to a thread via the "In-Reply-To" and "References" e-mail headers, I'd think that KMail's behaviour is correct, even though I understand that the behaviour of gmail (and other clients?) that break a thread when the subject line changes is more practical as many users these days seem to reply to any old old e-mail they can find from the intended recipient to start a new message.
Questions:
(1) Is KMail's threaded view the exception or is gmail the exception?
I would say threading by in-reply-to: and references: is the correct way. Thunderbird and knode both follow this practice.
(2) Are there mailing list guidelines for the opensuse list and
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette
should an automated reminder with a link to the guidelines be posted, e.g. quarterly?
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