This may not be the first time it's been brought up, but it seems it deserves repeating: I've noticed that for some reason (laziness?) many people reply to list mail rather than telling their mailer to compose a new message to the list. Even if you change the subject, your mailer often includes a header like In-Reply-To <original-message-id>. This makes other proper mailers (for example, mutt, which many people on this list, including many potential answer-persons) thread the messages with the unrelated message you replied to. This does 2 things: creates big, ugly pseudo-threads for us, and buries your message therein, making it less likely to be found and responded to. I know that on a list with this much traffic I sometimes look for 'singleton' messages to reply to; often I find that questions within threads (showing replies beneath them) have already been answered, and I sometimes skip them. For these reasons, you should not reply to someone else's message with an unrelated message; you should compose a new message. </rant> Vineet
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