-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 April 2003 06:06, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* James Mohr
[04-21-03 02:12]: Those that do not use a threaded mail reader do not see a problem, [...] it is in everyone's intereste to start a *new* thread and not simply reply to an existing one and then change then subject.
There has been some discussion on the kmail list on how to handle someon who does this (intentionally or otherwise) by detecting it has happened, scanning for "more-or-less proper" ways of altering a thread heading (i.e. use of "was <oldsubject>") and zapping the "references" header as appropriate. I think it is a nice idea and will help "educate" those new to the system, but it only addresses the problem from -one- e-mail client.
Your heart is in the right place but, sadly I fear, you are beating a dead horse. Courtesy and Respect appear to be lost attributes.
I noticed that the sudden rise in thread-theft occured immediately after 8.2 started arriving in people's hands -- I wonder if there are far more "new" people to this list because 8.2 is their first into to linux (or first intro to SuSE) It could be possible that use of other e-mail clients, which didn't support threading in the first place, has them "trained" the wrong way... - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+pB6rV/YHUqq2SwsRAixoAKCbFJVlvXBjWGbeLccBZt6g9cYkLwCeITgp otuZW7MAejxPxwYhHCCboyY= =xicH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----