[OSM-talk-be] mailing list good practice

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:52:51AM +0200, Glenn Plas wrote:
> EN:
> 
> If you want to be serious about this then a new topic should be
> initiated by sending a new mail instead of a reply with a new
> subject.  Every decent mailclient out there -usually- does not use
> the subject to 'thread' mails. instead it uses certain fields in the
> mail headers.  I noticed that mail-man (the mailing list handler of
> THIS list) does not seem to add those headers (in fact, they seem to
> be removed from outgoing mails, I cannot find those fields like
> below).
> 
> example of those are :
> 
> References: <20130914070031.83C7A1561AD6 at server21>
> <CANHB50fV+JQ_DYnu91QYaURcRyAKk-pqbHGFMQmYzQZAeC=Xwg at mail.gmail.com>
> <5236AF60.2050502 at byte-consult.be>
> In-Reply-To: <5236AF60.2050502 at byte-consult.be>
> 
> This is what the (E)mailers usually use when exchanging mail
> correspondence (non mailing list) when hitting 'Reply'

Those headers are there.  They're not there on mail you replied
to because he actually started a new thread, and your mail client
should have shown that.


Kurt