OT: Backup failure

[Colin Law]

On 27 September 2015 at 07:17, Grizzly <Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 27 September 2015  at 4:35, silver.bullet at zoho.com wrote:
> OT: Backup failure (at least in part)
>
>>On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:48:05 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>>>By the way, why are you starting a new thread at every reply?
>>
>>A lot of people consider the "subject" as being the "thread". It's
>>advisable to explain that emails include data, the "header". Usually
>>most of the header is hidden by email programs. "Message-ID",
>>"References" and "In-Reply-To" provide the thread related header data.
>>Some people use the "thread" to sort emails. Usually email programs
>>allow to fall back to sort by subject, if threads are broken, but this
>>doesn't always work as wanted.
>
> And (as I was told) if they take list as Digest replying to that breaks the
> thread(ing)

True.  I believe it is generally considered bad form to reply to the
digest.  If one wants to participate in conversations one should not
use the digest.

Also I see that in the case of the original mail this forked from that
the OP used three different subject lines.

Colin