Hi John. I think you are seeing reality - or at least I see the same things happening. I use the regular Mail program on my MiniMac. I just assume folks feel the need for a new title to the thread for some reason. I suspect it is appropriate to at least include the old title when the thread veers off into another direction. For example, if original thread was "Aural tuning is superior to machine tuning", but someone decides to not just argue that point, but rather to vilify the ETD, they might modify the subject line as such: "ETD's are the Devil's Work; was: Aural tuning is superior to machine tuning". And Joe? Well, that's just Joe I assume. Joe marches to his own drummer. Would we want him any other way? And yes, I seem to recall that he may indeed subscribe to the digest version. But why he doesn't use the original subject line I sure don't know. :-( So ya gave up on that little grey square box? Terry Farrell On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:49 AM, John Formsma wrote: > I keep seeing new threads created when someone has replied. For > instance, replies for the same topic begin their separate new > thread. It makes it frustrating to try to read the same discussion: > replies keep showing up in multiple threads. And, Joe Garrett's > replies are always begun in a new thread. (Is that because some > receive mail in digest form and have to copy and paste into a new > email?) > > Anyone else seeing the same thing? Are folks just not selecting > 'Reply' with their email software? Maybe it's my problem -- using > Gmail, and perhaps there's some quirk there. I can possibly send a > jpeg of the screenshot later today. Right now, the Inbox is cleaned > up and wouldn't show that very well. > > Second thing. There has been talk of making the list a web > discussion forum (similar to Pianoworld's). Any progress on that? > While that certainly has its limitations, it at least tends to keep > the same discussions threaded together. One other forum I subscribe > to has a nice feature of highlighting new discussion activity. You > can easily see all threads, but only the ones that have new activity > are shown in bold and/or highlighted text. I hate the search feature > of that forum, though. It's more difficult to find particular > keywords. But it brings some new features that are helpful ... the > ability to edit a post, for instance. > > -- > JF
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