[Wine] Empty subject

James Hawkins truiken at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 16:07:52 CDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:48 PM, jnewman <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>  Mark Knecht wrote:
>  >
>  > I've been receiving a lot of emails where all I see is a statement
>  > from the person posting in (I assume) the forum but not quoting any of
>  > the test that he or she is responding to. This makes it pretty much
>  > impossible for me to say much of anything in context so I'm just
>  > deleting these without much attention.
>  >
>  > So far today it seems like this must be at least 50% of the traffic.
>  >
>  > Are others seeing this also? Is anything about this caused on my end?
>  >
>  > If this is happening because the default in the forum is to not
>  > quote the previous part of the thread I can completely understand
>  > that. That's the way a forum should work since you can see the post
>  > immediately above. However if that sort of post in the forum is sent
>  > to the email list without any context it's almost useless here I
>  > think.
>
>
>  This is a fundamental difference between Forums and the mailing list. In the forum, replies are always shown in ascending order by post time, so it is not necessary to quote a post above it.
>
>  Mailing list users could work around this by configuring your email client to show posts in a threaded view. Thunderbird supports this.
>
>  Ahh, the joys of merging two distinct discussion communities into one pot. Who's idea was this again?
>

gmail does this with the 'conversation view', but there's something
wrong with the email headers coming from the forum.  I frequently
(unless the replier is replying from the ML) receive emails with a
'Re: XYX' subject and the reply text (with no other text).  I would be
fine without the quoted text that is being replied to if the emails
were linked up as a conversation, but that doesn't happen.  I'm not
familiar with all of this, so I don't know the root of the problem.

-- 
James Hawkins



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