We do mention it at http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php I'll post the mailing list guidelines here as well, as it is good to remind people every now and then: * Use a valid email adress. Every new poster's email address is checked for validity through confirmation. * Send plain ascii messages, no HTML-formatted emails please. * Turn on wordwrapping so your entire message doesn't show up on a single line. * No attachments please, just post a URL if you want someone to look at something. * Don't gpg/pgp sign your messages. If you want people to be able to send you encrypted email, stick your key-locator in your .sig * Don't hijack other peoples' threads. To post on a new topic, start a new message, don't reply and just change the subject. * Check the archives before posting a question, chances are it has already been asked and answered a few times. -Rasmus On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Ryan Jameson (USA) wrote: > Is this for real? I never knew this either. I almost always send emails to the list by replying to old ones and changing the subject for new threads. I will remember this in the future if I create a thread. > > I don't imagine Nikos and I are the only two who did not know this. Though I'm sure the habit of replying instead of creating a new email is not the norm either. > > <>< Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-db@gremlins.biz] > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:35 AM > To: php-db@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: PDFlib > > > On Monday 25 November 2002 23:19, nikos wrote: > > > Hello everybody > > Does evrybody know if there is a free version of PDFlib > > Thanx > > Nikos > > You have started a new thread by taking an existing posting and replying to > it while you changed the subject. > > > That is bad, because it breaks threading. Whenever you reply to a message, > your mail client generates a "References:" header that tells all recipients > which posting(s) your posting refers to. A mail client uses this information > to build a threaded view ("tree view") of the postings. > > > With your posting style you successfully torpedoed this useful feature; your > posting shows up within an existing thread it has nothing to do with. > > > Always do a fresh post when you want to start a new thread. To achieve this, > click on "New message" instead of "Reply" within your mail client, and enter > the list address as the recipient. You can save the list address in your > address book for convenience. > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
