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Date:         Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:18:05 -0700
Reply-To:     "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Doesn't Anyone Read The Messages They Respond To?
Comments: To: mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <de48c0be0709251216nb001325m873efdc09c8888d4@mail.gmail.com>
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Not Thunderbird it doesn't. TB is smart enough to know that Re: and Fwd: get sorted with the original posting. Are there clients that don't understand this convention which must go back to the Olden

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR

On 9/25/2007 12:16 PM mordo wrote:

> As long as we are critiquing posting style, can we please leave the "Fwd:" > or "Re:" out of the subject line when responding to a post? It causes email > clients to ungroup the messages thus disrupting the thread. Also, please > refrain from changing the subject of a message you are replying to. It also > ungroups the messages in a thread. > > Thanks for your consideration and attention to grammar. ;] > > mordo > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> > Date: Sep 25, 2007 12:24 AM > Subject: Doesn't Anyone Read The Messages They Respond To? > To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com > > Just returning from a three week trip and catching up on the email.. I just > ran into the third thread where it was obvious that people started writing > an answer before reading the whole original message. Please people, read > and understand the question before cluttering the list with answers that > don't make any sense based on the information provided in the original > message. Example: "I pumped the brakes several times but the pedal still > went all the way to the floor" and the response was "Did you try pumping > the brakes?" And as for watching a thread get completely off the original > topic enough has been said about that in the past. > Okay, off my soap box and donning Nomex.... > > > -- > mordo > 1990 Carat >


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