On 28 November 2013 09:29, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 28 November 2013, Roger sent: >> I haven't been following this discussion thread closely of late but >> would like to understand how and what emails, clients, headers, gmail >> and faults or not with browsers has to do with "Why some say "rpm >> hell". I seem to have missed a step. > > The thread diverged, and nobody changed the subject line. I think it > just petered out with an explanation of what "RPM hell" was, and how > it's not unique to RPM. > > If your mail client does threading, you could collapse this thread, and > walk back up its heritage until it split off. And you could follow just > the original thread, keeping this tangent hidden out of the way. > > You can't do that when someone stuffs up the threading headers. All the > replies just get thrown in a mess on the floor. > > I can't think how the problem poster is doing this, other than by being > deliberately annoying. > Deliberate or not, it was at least interesting. If using a separate client it can be quite easy, but that normally leaves a more apparent signature in the header showing it's been received by smtp or similar. The problem is that however it's done this is apparently accomplished in just the gmail web interface. (You could also I suppose, if really trolling, compose each reply as a new mail, cutting and pasting, hadn't really considered that possibility.) It turns out if you use the 'edit subject' option gmail drops the references and in-reply-to (even if you don't actually edit the subject). Arguably this is exactly what you don't want to happen, since you can't edit a subject to indicate something like 'solved' or the that topic has drifted. Anyway, apologies, I've tried it in this email to demonstrate. There may be other ways to accomplish it. If AP is doing this unintentionally then you can avoid it by using the 'pop-out' option to get an pop-out window rather than edit subject which gets the pop-out but also breaks references. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
