14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
6:36 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Dale H. Cook <radiotest at juno.com> wrote:
At 06:30 PM 9/14/2016, J. wrote:
days! I was getting bored with all the conversation about vintage hardware
and software - it was so, well, meaningful. We haven't had a good
food-fight here in... days!
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Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
How is sending a new email any different than
replying / changing subject
line?
The message headers contain data that identify which thread a message is
part of. Subscribers normally do not see that data because very few people
have a reason to look at the full headers of a message. Replying to an
existing thread without changing the subject maintains that data. Replying
to an existing thread but changing the subject line also maintains that
data, which identifies the reply as part of the original thread. In both
cases the message appears in the list archives as part of the original
thread.
Starting a new thread with a new subject assigns new data identifying the
new thread. It appears in the list archives as part of a new thread,
independent from the original thread. That is part of the way in which
mailing list software, in general, works.
Oh boy, oh boy! We haven't had a 'mailing-list-behavior' thread in, oh,