threads (was: Re: [Techtalk] really basic debian question)

[Carla Schroder]

Browsers? Where? Real geeks like me use shadow-puppets, tin cans and string, 
and sometimes pigeons.

Carla "down with computers" Schroder

On Thursday 16 March 2006 16:51, mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> <Gasp>  There are graphics browsers in use in a Linux group?  I'm
> shocked! Shocked!
>
> Thanks for the clarification - I'm stickin with me pine, but it's nice to
> know what that was all about.
>
> Kathleen
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Mary wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:39:18 +1100
> > From: Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org>
> > To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> > Subject: Re: threads (was: Re: [Techtalk] really basic debian question)
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006, mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> >> Not sure what this is in reference to.  I checked the sent-mail copy
> >> of my initial message and the subject line reads as "was" above, w/o
> >> Re:.  Definitely its own thread.
> >
> > You did change the subject line, but by replying to an existing message
> > and changing the subject line, your mail appears to be part of the
> > discussion that you hit reply in to many mail readers.
> >
> > I've put up my own screenshot at
> > http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/tmp/thread.png . See how your
> > message (red arrow) is connected to Carla's unrelated message (green
> > arrow) to which you presumably hit reply? It didn't appear as its own
> > discussion and it didn't appear with other new messages at the bottom of
> > the mail client.
> >
> > I'm not nearly as concerned as the person who initially complained (I
> > doubt many people here are filtering out whole conversations, and you
> > *did* get replies), but it is probably *slightly* better to not hit
> > reply, but to start an entirely new message. I don't personally consider
> > it worth making a fuss about either way, but since you asked for
> > clarification... I hope this helps.
> >
> > -Mary


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