[gameprogrammer] Re: OT: Request

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Scott Harper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I understand that it is terribly convenient when one desires to ask a
> question on a topic to simply reply to an existing message, then
> change the subject to your choice, but I humbly request people to
> stop doing this.
>
> As many of you may not know yet, many others of us use email programs
> which sort email by thread, and they do this by reading header
> information, which is automatically copied over by your email program
> when you reply to an email.  This sorts your new email topic as a
> subset (a reply) of another already posted topic.  Thus, if I want to
> find an email thread by topic, it requires opening all of the threads
> to see if it was posted underneath another thread.

I for example might completly miss such posts, because I don't read 
threads I'm not interested in. I simply delete that whole thread and 
also incorrectly started threads that might be inside that thread.

After all I get anything from 50 to 400 mailing list posts per day and 
I'm not going to go through all of them. Besides I think I'm not the 
only one who does it like this. :)

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