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Re: [LUG] Just a suggestion.

 

Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:06:24 +0000 (GMT)
> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Grant Sewell wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:42:00 +0000
>>> J Wonnacott wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Another mailing list I am on has categories for messages and I was
>>>> wondering if this is something we may like to consider using here.
>>>> I find it useful on the other list as there are some topics I am
>>>> very inerested in, some which I may read if not busy at the time
>>>> and some which I definitely don't want. Admittedly the heading
>>>> would take some planning but for a start we could have 'Help
>>>> wanted', 'Meetings', 'Winges about M$', 'For sale/wanted', 'Web
>>>> links', etc.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments?
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>         
>>> Personally, I am against the idea.  I quite like having
>>> everything-under-one-roof as it means that I receive messages about
>>> topics that I would not necessarily have thought I'd be interested
>>> in, but upon reading them, I am.
>>>
>>> Also, things frequently get quite off-topic... would these kind of
>>> messages have to be moved to other lists, breaking the threading of
>>> a topic?
>>>       
>> Threading is good, and these days probably one of the better ways to
>> keep things organised. I can trivially follow (or ignore) a thread
>> using my chosen email client (pine) and it makes sure when I reply,
>> the thread references are kept in-tact.
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>>     
>
> Likewise in Claws-Mail (sometimes known as Sylpheed).  Occasionally it
> misses a trick, but that seems to be when people reply to a thread, but
> change the subject line and content, and are essentially creating a
> whole new thread but not starting from scratch. :(
>
> Grant.
>
>   
I think this is where we have

new subject : was old subject, which seems to work quite well,

just look at the current subject

Re: [LUG] Just a suggestion.

Paul

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