changing the subject line

[Liam Proven]

On 14 March 2012 14:29, Alexander Skwar (ML)
<alexanders.mailinglists+nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 14.03.2012 15:18, schrieb Liam Proven:
>
>> No, MR, whatever your name is, you are breaking the threads. It is
>> extremely annoying and I for one am getting very close to kill-filing
>> you for it.
>
> What's annoying? The thread is totally intact and shows
> up just fine.
>
>> You do not get to set or change the rules.
>
> He doesn't. And he's not trying to, as far as I can tell.
>
>> Play by the rules as they are, or leave the game.
>
> He does. What he wrote was correct.

It might do in your chosen MTA. It does not do so in all MTAs and it
does not do so in my chosen MTA, and I am not about to change MTAs
just to humour some idiot who insists on breaking the rules of how
mailing lists work. Those rules have been in place since the 1960s,
since before the Internet was invented, and it is not OK for someone
to start mucking with them now.

In brief:

* post in text, not HTML or other rich-text formats
* bottom-quote
* do not change the subject line unless you wish to start a new thread
* keep sigs under 4 lines, separated by hyphen-hyphen-space-newline

I am using a cross-platform MTA which works on my main and secondary
desktop PCs, all 3 of my laptops and on my phone. I cannot - and do
not want to - simply move to a different one just to repair the
thread-breakage caused by one person who cannot abide by list
netiquette.

I used, up until 8 years ago, to use Thunderbird, which might be able
to cope with this fine, but Thunderbird does not run on my Android
phone or my iPhone or my Nokia Communicator; nor can I take a 6½GB
messagebase with me on the road or use it seamlessly from 5 different
main machines, not all of which are on the same LAN as my server.

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