[wp-hackers] Mailing list reply etiquette

Stephen Rider wp-hackers at striderweb.com
Wed Mar 3 04:22:31 UTC 2010


On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Matt Jacob wrote:

> I'm not sure if Gmail recognizes In-Reply-To for threading (might be a combination of that and their own algorithm), but Thunderbird sure does. And it's quite disorienting when you're following along in a thread and---BAM!---the subject has changed to something else all of a sudden.

Apple Mail also.

Easy rule:  If starting a new thread, don't use "reply".  :-)

Stephen


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