Re: Just a tip from one of your peers

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:27 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > I want this to come across in the nicest way possible. Please I mean no > harm by my following statements. And if you decide to hate me and never > to respond to one of my posts again, well, that is your choice. > > <rant title="To all the persons that hijack threads..."> > > I, and others too I'd expect, would appreciate it if you didn't take a > response email from one thread and change the subject thinking you are > created a new thread. Because you are not. > > To those of us that use email clients or news readers that correctly > display threads, things get lost in the mix of threads that get many > levels deep. > > The initial topic for the thread that I am referring to is as follows > > Author Thread > RRT [PHP] PHP pages won't open correctly on my server. > David Stoltz [PHP] How to output a NULL field? > David Stoltz [PHP] Date Comparison > David Stoltz [PHP] Date +30 comparison > > Mind you that two of them were date related, but can anybody else see > how things could get lost very quickly? I sure do. > > After writing this, I guess it would be best to simply ask David to > create a new email to the list each time that he has a different question. > > </rant> > > If you are in question now about how you should behave on this list, > please refer here: > http://us2.php.net/reST/php-src/README.MAILINGLIST_RULES > > > Jim Lucas > > +1 I know the feeling! I have my email client display messages by thread, and it's darn annoying for threads to have several completely different topics! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk