[Lazarus] Top-posting, was Re: reading FORTRAN-style input in Lazarus

Alexander Klenin klenin at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 10:39:14 CEST 2011


2011/8/5 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> And while we are at it David, PLEASE do not reply to an existing
> message, and then change the subject line to start a new message thread.
>
> Most email clients use the message header information to generate a
> hierarchy of replies. So your method seriously screws with message
> threading!! Unfortunately many here seem to be doing such stupid things.

I'd say that in this case the threading is actually correct,
since his message _is_ reply to the parent, even if only to the part of it.
It is quite different from the case where users just hit "reply"
on random message instead of creating a new one.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin




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