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I have two comments on how to post to this mailing list: 1. DO NOT reply to an email unless you're actually writing a reply to that particular email. Specifically, many people reply to a random email of this mailing list as a kind of shortcut to post a new message. *Don't do this* When you reply to an email, your email program embeds hidden information that links your email to the one you've replied to. Our archive page has a "thread index" which uses exactly this information to show the relation between emails. If you reply to an unrelated email, this will be visible in this index, even if you change the subject etc. Some email programs (such as the one I use: mutt) also have the capability of showing a thread index, and suffer from this practice too. (I'm right now manually cutting these erroneous links to make the thread index correct.. very tedious work..) 2. When replying to a message in a digest, make sure the subject line is appropriate. For example, when replying to "Script Cursor", then make sure the subject of your email is "Re: Script Cursor", not something like "Re: lanbox-talk Digest #330 - 29/10/02". This is ofcourse because the subject is supposed to reflect the subject (duh) of the email, and "Re: lanbox-talk Digest ..." means nothing. Also, when the hidden "In-Reply-To" information is missing, our mailing list archive uses the subject to guess what you're actually replying to. It can't do this when the subject is wrong ofcourse. Thank you. -- Matthijs van Duin -- May the Forth be with you!
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