[Opensim-users] Subjects like Opensim-users Digest....

[Cider Jack]

Nine times out of ten I delete such subject lines without reading just
on principle. Gmail though displays the first line or so of text in
the inbox, and if something there catches my eye I'll read it. Then if
I reply, well yeah, what Simon says about correcting the subject
breaking the thread. Sometimes I feel a pang of guilt not changing it,
but the breaking issue...

Annoys the heck outta me too, but I'm not sure what to do about it! If
the mailman software did reject them, perhaps with an automated note
back to the sender to change the subject line...

Cheers,
~!CJ

On 11/5/11, Slavin, Simon <s.slavin at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 4 Nov 2011, at 12:41pm, Gary Beck wrote:
>
>> I continue to be puzzled by the use of these subjects that give no clue
>> what the subject is.
>
> They are caused by people who read the list as a digest (one post per day
> with all content for that day) replying to a message without setting the
> 'Subject' header properly.  The problem is that if a later poster to the
> thread corrects the header, it 'breaks' the thread for many email programs.
>
> Yes, I find them very annoying too.  I think mailman should reject all
> messages with 'Digest' in the subject-header.
>
> Simon.
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