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On 3/8/07, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 21:03 +0100, expose@×××××××××××.net wrote: |
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> > Tom Wesley <tom@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> > > Please could you stop attempting to create new threads by replying to |
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> > > existing emails to the list? It's considered bad netiquette and |
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> > > generally makes new threads difficult to spot. The list is hard |
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> enough |
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> > > to parse as it is, without this added hindrance. |
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> > I did it in order to keep the two different things seperate: The ways |
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> other |
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> > projects handle such things, and a discussion on what one could do that |
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> I |
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> > hope might come up (as explained before). |
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> > On the other hand, I noticed yet it likely wont, which is something I |
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> dislike |
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> > to comment on any further now for several reasons, so feel free to |
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> forget |
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> > about the mails, as they seem to me to have been unwanted. Sorry if so. |
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> No, what he meant was that if you use your reply button on an existing |
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> thread, even if you change the topic, it still appears under the old |
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> thread. When starting a new thread, use a new mail, not a reply mail. |
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> That's all he meant. |
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It showed up as a new thread just fine in Gmail. I've always felt that |
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bitching about these kinds of things should be considered bad netiquette, |
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but that's just me. At least Tom Wesley's comment could have been sent |
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off-list. |
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David Grant |
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http://www.davidgrant.ca |
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