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Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:13:23 -0800
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 7:05 AM Abraham Y. Chen <aychen () avinta com> wrote:
As you can see, my practice of continuously prefixing timestamps to the "Subject" line of messages in a thread seems to conform to ThunderBird's mechanism!
Ave, Most email clients assume that a change to the subject line (other than adding "Re:" to the front) indicates that the sender wants to discuss a new topic related to but meaningly different from the last. So they start a new thread for it. This is a perfectly reasonable inference. If they didn't behave this way then when folks replied to a message but started a new topic with a subject line change, the email client would intermingle the new topic messages with the old, defeating the purpose of message threading. Perhaps Thunderbird does this. I don't know. I haven't used it in many years. By adding meaningless changes to the subject line, you cause most threaded mail clients to believe that you have started a new topic when you have not. This makes a mess of their inboxes every time you go on a posting spree. Personally, I've found your email behavior so distracting that I've deleted the bulk of your email without opening it and even considered programming my mail client to delete any messages with "20.*AYC" in the subject line. I doubt I'm the only one. That's the price you pay for abusing the subject header: disruptive people get ignored. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
Current thread:
- 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Abraham Y. Chen (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Jethro Binks (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Brielle (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Pim van Stam (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions William Herrin (Dec 16)
- RE: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Kord Martin (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions ic (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions William Herrin (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Joel Esler via NANOG (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Brie (Dec 16)
- Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions Tom Beecher (Dec 16)