[Coco] Thread mess?

[Louis Ciotti]

Another monkey wrench are smartphones and tablets  I am sure there clients
handle things differently as well.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Salvador Garcia <
ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net> wrote:

> Good point, I was going to ask about this.
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> I am relatively new to lists. I have always used Groups (such as Yahoo or
> Google groups) and forums. I had originally set it to feliver a digest to
> my email, but I am getting them as individual emails. While I find this
> impractical, it is very easy to reply.
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> Since I don't fully understand lists the following might be silly
> questions. My objective is to use a client of some sorts to receive the
> list's emails eclusively while receiving other email elsewhere. Is this
> possible? My inbox is being inundated by "CoCo" emails and need some way to
> organize them in some way. Any advice is welcomed. Salvador
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 8:45 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Thread mess?
>
>
> But what about the people who get the daily digest...  That will always
> break a
> thread.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> Sent: ‎10/‎7/‎2014 5:15 PM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Thread mess?
>
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 06:46:55AM +1000, Nick Marentes wrote:
> > On 8/10/2014 6:01 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> > >  and you have the mess we live in today.
> > >There may be something to that, but most email clients at worst only
> > >create problems for their own users.  Mistakes by people screw-up
> > >threading for everyone.
> > >
> > >People make two main mistakes in this regard:
> > >
> > >   -- they attempt to start a new thread by replying to an existing
> > >   message and simply changing the subject; or,
> > >
> > >   -- they attempt to reply to a thread by sending a new message to
> > >   the list while using the same subject as an existing thread.
> > So the short answer is:
> >
> > Always REPLY to a message thread and DO NOT change the subject line if
> you
> > want to stay in that thread.
> >
> > To start a new thread, start a new message to the list.
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> ACK
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