[syslinux] mixed email threads

Shao Miller sha0.miller at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 14:51:48 PST 2016


On 2/29/2016 15:49, Ryan Novosielski via Syslinux wrote:
> This is basically the only reason that this happens, and is something
> that most people learn not to do the hard way (myself included). Rule of
> thumb: if you are writing to a mailing list, compose a new/blank e-mail
> to the list address.
> If you click reply, and aren't sure what you're doing, you'll end up
> screwing up threading for other people that use threaded e-mail readers,
> including Thunderbird and others that don't care if the "Subject:"
> header changes, but stick to the "In-Reply-To:" header. This sort of
> thing falls under thread-hijacking, though it's a lot more subtle example.

Agreed.

In "[syslinux] [PATCH 0/1] UEFI UDP/TFTP" with message ID 
<975158248.563536.1456676767339.JavaMail.yahoo at mail.yahoo.com>, we have:

   In-Reply-To: <56CDA9E4.2040402 at akeo.ie>
   References: <56CDA9E4.2040402 at akeo.ie>

Message ID <56CDA9E4.2040402 at akeo.ie> is, in fact, "[syslinux] [PATCH 
2/5] ntfs: remove unused variable and have ntfssect use char API calls"

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