"Gregg L. DesElms" <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When you reply to one of these email list things, *DO* *NOT* *CHANGE* *THE*" > *SUBJECT*:" *FIELD*! Please do change the Subject field when the actual subject of conversation has shifted. It's bad email etiquette to have all of the subthreads of a long thread labelled with the same subject text even when they're discussing different things. It makes it hard to identify when the various topics of conversation branched off and which branch correspondes to which discussion. Subject lines are there to help us identify the subjects of the threads. > Most subscribers to the IETF (and most other) list(s) need for > everything received from said list(s) to be appropriately labeled in I suspect that's not true for "most" subscribers to the IETF list, though we don't have email client statistics so I don't know if I'm right (or if you're right). However, please do avoid using hobbled email clients that can't follow threads using the appropriate headers (In-Reply-To: and References:) intended for threading. Most email clients can do it. Or, if you insist on using a deficient client that can't follow threads properly, at least don't try to dumb down the email use of the rest of the list to work with it at the expense email functionality that's useful for others. -- Cos