On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 15:06 -1000, David Burns wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Relying > on Subject for threading is fundamentally broken. > > This statement seems to imply that I said or think that same subject > => same thread, or that this ought to be sufficient. Nope. > > But I was surprised to learn that !(different subject => different > thread). > > I guess when it comes to email etiquette, nothing should surprise me. Two things: 1) The term "thread" is used for two different concepts: a) a conversation with various participants around a given topic, and b) a partially-ordered set of email messages linked by certain headers. It's considered convenient to make these two things isomorphic. 2) Regarding etiquette, the community decides. The community regards hijacking, defined as changing the thread in sense (a) without changing it in sense (b), as something to be avoided. Oddly enough the reverse case isn't usually cause for comment. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
