[CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads

[Keith Roberts]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>
> Subject: [CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads
> 
> hi guys,
>
> Just a quick note about adding [SOLVED] tags to the Subject lines on
> email lists : Dont do it, it does not help and makes no difference to
> the content - yet, it breaks threading of responses.
>
> Unline web forums, email clients will try and thread using the Subject
> and in-reply-to headers to retain thread sanity. So dont please dont
> break that, its quite a key part of the whole mailing lists experience
> for everyone.

Is that why it's frowned upon to use a current thread to 
start a new one? Like doing a 'reply to' and then changing 
the subject line?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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