On 16/01/07, Christopher Thieme cdthieme@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. Your emails are breaking mailing list threads in Gmail.
I don't even begin to know what that means, and as a result I'm inclined to not really care.
Way to go on the "considering other people" front there.
Gmail groups email replies together as "conversations" (known in other mail clients as "threads"). Every time you send a reply to this list, you break these conversations apart, because whatever you are using to write email with is not including the In-Reply-To header. Before you say "I don't know what that is so I don't care", I suggest you read about email headers at http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers.html, and if you still want to plead ignorance, you can continue to RFC 822, the specification document originally defining it, at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html. Given that RFC 822 sees its twenty-fifth birthday this August, your mail client clearly has some issues to address.
The upshot of all this is that your messages effectively double the number of apparent conversations in Gmail users' WikiEN-l mailboxes, which is annoying, and your attitude is even more so. Please devote the time necessary to identify and rectify both issues.