[plug] [OT] List Posting/Replying

[James Devenish]

In message <41612A9F.4040307 at tigris.org>
on Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:49:03PM +0800, Tim White wrote:
> I'm not sure how Thunderbird threads topics but it seems to follow it 
> even with subject changes. It makes me wonder sometimes when I see a 
> message under a thread totally unrelated.

I've noticed that the problem is sometimes associated with senders who
are using webmail. The problem is indeed visible in the archives:
http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/pipermail/plug/2004-October/thread.html

> Maybe people are replying to a message and changing the subject rather
> than starting a new message when posting a message to the list.

Thanks for mentioning it -- I imagine a sentence of this nature will
find its way into our upcoming introductory e-mail.

> Maybe some list-post, list-help and list-subscribe[1] headers would be
> useful for new posters?

plug at plug has had some for a year (with both mail and web URLs):

List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug>, 
	<mailto:plug-request at plug.linux.org.au?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/pipermail/plug>
List-Post: <mailto:plug at plug.linux.org.au>
List-Help: <mailto:plug-request at plug.linux.org.au?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug>, 
	<mailto:plug-request at plug.linux.org.au?subject=subscribe>