Forum issue - Starting new thread - Learn from my mistake

    Adam Kendall
    Feb 01 2006 | 2:17 pm
    Over the years, I've habitually started new threads on the Max/MSP list by
    hitting reply to anything in my Max/MSP/Jitter mailbox. I then do the
    obvious of changing the subject line and body.
    This does not work with the new forum.
    Even though the subject line changes, the Forum sees the new email with new
    subject as a response to the original email and places it in that thread.
    Adam
    • projects
      Feb 01 2006 | 4:11 pm
      It doesn't work with a lot of email clients too. There's another
      piece of data embedded in an email that can be used to tracks
      "conversations," regardless of whether the subject changes or not.
      Ben
    • John Nowak
      Feb 01 2006 | 4:11 pm
      This didn't really work with the mailing list either. You've been
      hidden in my thread view for a long time now, which (sanely) relies
      on reply-to headers to know which emails are replies to others.
      - John
    • Roman Thilenius
      Feb 04 2006 | 8:53 pm
      today i read the forum for the second time after
      day 1, and noticed how bad forum and mail is working
      together, too many of us seem to hit reply buttons
      for starting new posts, and so i do.
      i will miss the email list, but in the next days i
      will unsubscribe and switch to using the forum only
      for read and write tasks.
      this does mean that i will no longer be able to
      read all the wonderful off topic posts in the jitter
      forum, but it also means my own posts will go into
      the right thread in the future.
      hopefully many of you will follow.
      - attachement: 110.zip
    • John Nowak
      Feb 05 2006 | 12:48 am
      When I brought this up a year ago, people told me it was the fault of
      my email client, and that I should stop complaining about it.
      However, if it isn't obvious by now to everyone that this behavior
      needs to stop, it never will be. It takes 1/100th of the time you
      spend typing the body of your email to type the first few letters of
      "maxmsp" into your To field before autocomplete takes over.
      The reply-to header is a very useful piece of information that can
      enables forum/list integration go smoothly (you still have issues
      with quoting versus non-quoting, but if you use threading in your
      email client, this is negated). Without it, it would be incredibly
      difficult (you'd have to guess by the subject). To ignore it or abuse
      it makes the forums and threaded email clients less useful (or worse,
      unusable, as is now basically the case).
      I know I sound like a whiny brat, but the abuse of reply-to literally
      doubles the amount of time I have to spend parsing the Max list to
      find what is interesting/helpful/etc. This is a high volume list, and
      if I want to look at everything that goes through, threads can knock
      five minutes off my email time each day and make it less of a hassle
      as well.
      - John
    • Roman Thilenius
      Feb 05 2006 | 10:16 pm
      see john, you name it, quoting and not quoting
      is the next issue we have when 50% uf us are
      using the forum and 50% reading mails.
      back in the days noone ever used the archieves
      for other purposes than searching, and proper
      threads were not required for that.
      now many people use the archieves (=forum), because
      you can also reply here now.
      that why my call for moving to the forum.
      oh and, stop complaining! ;P
      - sabine christiansen 110 (rababababa...)