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Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:06:24 +0000 (GMT) > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > >> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Grant Sewell wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:42:00 +0000 >>> J Wonnacott wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Another mailing list I am on has categories for messages and I was >>>> wondering if this is something we may like to consider using here. >>>> I find it useful on the other list as there are some topics I am >>>> very inerested in, some which I may read if not busy at the time >>>> and some which I definitely don't want. Admittedly the heading >>>> would take some planning but for a start we could have 'Help >>>> wanted', 'Meetings', 'Winges about M$', 'For sale/wanted', 'Web >>>> links', etc. >>>> >>>> Any comments? >>>> >>>> James >>>> >>> Personally, I am against the idea. I quite like having >>> everything-under-one-roof as it means that I receive messages about >>> topics that I would not necessarily have thought I'd be interested >>> in, but upon reading them, I am. >>> >>> Also, things frequently get quite off-topic... would these kind of >>> messages have to be moved to other lists, breaking the threading of >>> a topic? >>> >> Threading is good, and these days probably one of the better ways to >> keep things organised. I can trivially follow (or ignore) a thread >> using my chosen email client (pine) and it makes sure when I reply, >> the thread references are kept in-tact. >> >> Gordon >> >> > > Likewise in Claws-Mail (sometimes known as Sylpheed). Occasionally it > misses a trick, but that seems to be when people reply to a thread, but > change the subject line and content, and are essentially creating a > whole new thread but not starting from scratch. :( > > Grant. > > I think this is where we have new subject : was old subject, which seems to work quite well, just look at the current subject Re: [LUG] Just a suggestion. Paul -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats e.g ISO 26300 odt http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php Next Linux User Group meet : Feb 7th : 3pm (TBC), Shoreline Cafe Paignton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html