Re: [Bug-tar] Verify option not working with incremental backups

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Eric Blake wrote:

> At least since RFC 822 standardized the In-Reply-To: and References:

I do not dispute that those headers exist, but that "good netiquette" 
was related to them in any way. Threaded reading of mail based on them is a 
recent addition, breaking long-standard user practice. As threading was done 
for years based on the Subject: line it is reasonable to expect changing the 
Subject: to change the thread. Just because someone had the idea to thread 
based on References doesn't mean they should expect it to work.

Sorry, but the constant haranguing of users on this is a pet peeve of mine 
and I tend to play devil's advocate. The average user has no way of telling 
a reply from a new mail except for the Re: in the Subject. Since you can 
change who a mail is to by rewriting To:, they have no reason to think 
changing the Subject doesn't actually do that -- change what it is about. If 
you want to suddenly make References: useful for something, then harangue 
the mail vendors to give people an easy way to clear them.

Now,  "good netiquette" usually does hold that correcting users should be 
done privately not back on the list, and list mail should not be copied to 
the sender. Since we've a broken at least one of these each, let's just go 
enjoy the rest of Saturday.



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