On July 15, 2005 12:36 pm, Matthew Miller wrote:
> What these folks seem to do is while reading a piclist message they
> think, "I want to post a new message to piclist". They then hit
> reply, change the subject and their message is displayed in the
> middle of a wholly unrelated thread. Jinx, I'm sure you know how to
> use your mail reader, but look at the image in my last message and
> it's pretty easy to identify two people who don't.
>
> Anyway, this is a peeve of mine. I just don't like reading a thread
> and then having to skip around a bunch of messages just to maintain
> continuity while I'm reading.

I find them annoying too. All for the sake of creating a message that 
contains the correct TO: address despite most of the underlying message 
still containing the wrong mechanisms for a fresh new thread.

You either got to live with the problem (annoying), or fix the sender so 
they create an email the right way (possible but unlikely over the long 
run), or you got to fix the piclist so it creates a new thread (might 
be interesting challenge?). Do you suppose James would be interested in 
tackling that problem so that the piclist re-writes it as a fresh 
thread?  <hint, hint>
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