On 07/29/2011 07:48 AM, Thomas Harold wrote: > On 7/28/2011 5:01 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: >>> the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to >>> headers, whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt >>> will use the subject line as well to thread messages. >> Apple Mail does that too and it makes the threading unusable IMO. >> >> If the clients are too dumb to adhere to a convention, I don't believe >> it's our job to baby them. >> >> Personally, I like the idea of the [SOLVED] tags because they can >> indicate when help is no longer needed. >> >> However, I also like the way the Sun Managers list does (did? it's been >> many years since I used it), but they basically said, post a question, >> work it out, then post a new SOLVED thread outlining the solution. >> >> While that would probably be a bit too formal for this list, it was a >> fantastic way of learning things. And having the solved thread made >> searching through archives way easier. Find a problem related to yours, >> then look for the SOLVED post. If you needed more detail, you went back >> to the main thread and read all the posts to see how they came to that >> conclusion. > Heck, I'd settle for people coming back to a "problem / issue" thread > and updating on how or what the actual problem was or what they did to > get the thing to work properly. > > So often you'll see a thread talking about trying X, Y& Z, then the > person having the problem never responds back as to whether X, Y or Z > worked. Which is especially troublesome a year or two later when you're > digging through threads in GMane trying to find a solution to a > particular issue. > > (Pet peeve of the day -- dead end threads on mail lists.) > +100 -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110729/dd43882a/attachment-0005.html>