[MPlayer-users] Starting new threads here...

[Rando Christensen]

This is one of the many reasons that a lot of mailing lists don't set
the reply-to: header for mailing. It makes it so that just hitting reply
doesn't quite work.

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:49:44 +0100: Moritz Bunkus (Moritz Bunkus
<moritz at bunkus.org>):

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi.
> 
> Everyone PLEASE - if you want to start a new thread here DO NOT JUST
> HIT REPLY AND REMOVE THE SUBJECT!
> 
> Just in the last couple of hours gabor started a thread about "dual
> audio avi question". linuxuser hit reply and changed the subject to
> "possible benefit from a cluster?". Three mails later Nathan Murphy
> replied to linuxuser and changed the subject into "MPlayer and
> Quicktime". Pavel Bibergal also just hit reply and changed the subject
> into "Mplayer and Mozilla's Plugger".
> 
> Guys, mail clients insert headers that identify the mail that you
> reply to. Intelligent mail clients can show a tree view where you can
> see what the sender is replying to. And if you just hit reply in order
> to start a new thread you fuck this whole (very good!) idea up. It
> makes your conversation harder to follow, and I'm very inclined not to
> answer to such mails, although I definitly have something to say to at
> least two of those topics.
> 
> Each and every mail client can be easily used to "compose" a mail, or
> "create a new mail", or whatever it is called. Together with an
> address book (which is often included) it's really, really easy to
> create good threads.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
>  ==> Ciao, Mosu (Moritz Bunkus)
> 
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