Just a tip from one of your peers

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.



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.



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


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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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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




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Re: Just a tip from one of your peers

At 9:27 AM -0700 9/3/09, 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.
>
>
>
>-snip-
>
>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.
>
>
>
>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

Jim:

Of course you are right.

But sometimes people don't realize that their email application keeps
the old thread going when they hit reply (I speak from experience).

They need to understand that they must create a new email and use the
php list address rather than just hitting reply and changing the
subject line.

Cheers,

tedd

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