Couple of questions

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:21:28PM -0400, Courtney Christensen wrote:
> On 10/2/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:24:46PM -0400, msmarti58 wrote:
> > > > When you ask a question it is polite to start your own thread, meaning
> > > > start a new email rather than piggybacking/hijacking someone else's
> > > > thread. Please see:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you mean. I hit reply (in Windows Live Mail, my email
> > > client), changed the subject, and began my message at the top of the page.
> >
> > When you hit "reply", you replied to an existing thread. To avoid doing this
> > you need to make a "fresh" email so that the existing headers for a different
> > "conversation" will not cause your email to appear as part of that grouping.
> >
> 
> The reason for starting a new email from scratch rather than replying
> to a pre-existing one from the list is because some people use mail
> readers which group discussions for them.  They are grouped by header
> information rather than subject (Correct?).  So when you reply to a
> pre-existing thread, people that use threaded readers see your
> question mixed in with whatever thread you replied to.  Is that fairly
> accurate?

Yes - that sums it up pretty well I'd say.

Generally speaking Linux mail readers thread by default - although some might have 
the option to use threads or not, the vast majority of list users use a threaded
view of some sort, in clients like Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, Sylpheed and so on,
or a news reader like Pan perhaps. Several clients can use either news protocol or mail
protocol, too.

Peter