On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 20:38 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> I also want to ask a question I haven't seen yet in this thread. >> Suppose I happen on a new fact that sends *me* off on a tangent -- >> something I've long meant to ask about, but not really relevant to the >> thread. (Here, for instance,it might be "Things the Uninitiated Need to >> Know and Never Get Told.") >> >> To do it, I naturally ought to start a new thread -- but also >> give the passage about the "*In* Reply-to" header, with credit to P O'C >> and what would be a bibliographic footnote if we were doing this in old- >> fashioned paper journals. > > Common sense would dictate that it's either a reply, or it's not. > > If it's in reply to the prior message, than write it as a reply. If > it's not in "reply," even if it's something that's been inspired by > another message, then it's a *new* message. > > If you need to refer to something from another message, then there's > several ways of doing so: > > * Simply quote the part of the message concerned. > > * Write something like, "See Fred's message on Tuesday re threading" > into your message. That allows people to find it. > > * Find the URI for the message on the Fedora archive, and include that > in your message. > > * Write the message ID for it into your message. Though, it's a long > time since I've come across a client that could find a message for you > from a quoted message ID (it'd find it in your local cache of messages, > after left- or right-clicking on the ID). I think it was a usenet > client on the Amiga, or perhaps Forte Inc's Agent, that could do that. Although I doubt there are hard and fast rules about this, it can be acceptable to simply reply, and edit the Subject e.g.: Subject: Concerning seafood (Was: the mortality of crabs) This will still be in the same thread, but at least the user is alerted to a change of topic. If it goes on too long of course, a new thread is called for (plus that rare thing, judgment). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
