Many times a message thread starts with a specific title and us the conversation goes, the subject alters and ends up to be totally different from the original msg/title.

Right now a chain of messages has a title about COVID19 virus and the body of them is about OSes, network security or something and another one with a title about a new bbs has text about the COVID19 and how affects some areas.

I get it, how this is happening... but plz... in some point, do alter the title. It helps to "filter" our daily personal message queue and not waste
time on things that for some people are not interesting. Sometimes you loose
an interesting msg just because the title is totally different and you don't have the time to read each msg, specially when you don't login into a bbs daily.

I have no intention to insult anyone. I am just telling this cause, for
example i want to follow all the covid19 msgs and i miss some of them cause of the wrong title. I am sure this has happened to many of you also.

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Makes sense to me. It does seem odd to be reading subjects and having something totally unrelated to it.

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On 03-13-20 18:12, xqtr wrote to All <=-

I get it, how this is happening... but plz... in some point, do alter
the title. It helps to "filter" our daily personal message queue and
not waste time on things that for some people are not interesting. Sometimes you loose an interesting msg just because the title is
totally different and you don't have the time to read each msg,
specially when you don't login into a bbs daily.

Thread drift. :) Oddly enough, changing the subject causes me to have to re-read the message, because I keep track of a lot of threads in my head by recognition. :)

I have no intention to insult anyone. I am just telling this cause, for example i want to follow all the covid19 msgs and i miss some of them cause of the wrong title. I am sure this has happened to many of you
also.

Yeah I'm as guilty as anyone, I've usually hit enter before changing the subject. The flow of the reader doesn't match my mind.


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xqtr wrote to All <=-

Many times a message thread starts with a specific title and us the conversation goes, the subject alters and ends up to be totally
different from the original msg/title.

Right now a chain of messages has a title about COVID19 virus and the
body of them is about OSes, network security or something and another
one with a title about a new bbs has text about the COVID19 and how affects some areas.

+ 1


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On 13 Mar 2020 at 06:12p, xqtr pondered and said...

Many times a message thread starts with a specific title and us the conversation goes, the subject alters and ends up to be totally
different from the original msg/title.

It's funny I was having a very similar discussion with someone else about the very same thing the other day.

I agree with your comments and think it's really a discipline thing to get
into such that you change the subject if you are about to reply.

The kicker is not changing the subject every reply else it gets even sillier. :)

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I agree with your comments and think it's really a discipline thing to
get into such that you change the subject if you are about to reply.

I run a nightly job in mystic to thread conversations. Does messing with the subject fork these off in different directions?

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On 14 Mar 2020 at 07:01p, ryan pondered and said...

I agree with your comments and think it's really a discipline thing t get into such that you change the subject if you are about to reply.

I run a nightly job in mystic to thread conversations. Does messing with the subject fork these off in different directions?

I'm not sure. This will be an interesting test in of itself. I have replied
to your question and changed the subject line. So let's see if it does or
does not impact on things.

My take on message base echomail reply linking is that the function scans public echomail bases and creates reply chains for all messages using MSGID
and REPLY kludges.

On that basis I'd say 'messing' with the subject line would not create a new fork if the 'thread' is looking at the linkages between MSGID etc.

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I agree with your comments and think it's really a discipline thing t get into such that you change the subject if you are about to reply.

I run a nightly job in mystic to thread conversations. Does messing with the subject fork these off in different directions?

If you're talking about message linking (threading) in MUTIL then the answer
is no, changing the subject will not break the thread.

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If you're talking about message linking (threading) in MUTIL then the answer is no, changing the subject will not break the thread.

Splendid! Well that assuages any of my concerns.

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On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:11:45 +1300
"Avon -> ryan" <0@101.1.21> wrote:

On 14 Mar 2020 at 07:01p, ryan pondered and said...

I agree with your comments and think it's really a
discipline thing t get into such that you change the
subject if you are about to reply.

I run a nightly job in mystic to thread conversations. Does
messing with the subject fork these off in different
directions?

I'm not sure. This will be an interesting test in of itself. I have
replied to your question and changed the subject line. So let's see
if it does or does not impact on things.

My take on message base echomail reply linking is that the function
scans public echomail bases and creates reply chains for all messages
using MSGID and REPLY kludges.

On that basis I'd say 'messing' with the subject line would not
create a new fork if the 'thread' is looking at the linkages between
MSGID etc.

Exactly, most programs use only MSGID and REPLY kludges for linking. The same with JamNNTPd and newsreaders.

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