Lucian Muresan wrote:
... of a thread containing 43 replies on actually various problems, all belonging to the thread "[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.31"?
Come on guys, it shouldn't be too difficult for people dealing with VDR to start a copmpletely new thread when one has an issue with a new version (replying and only changing the subject makes things only worse) instead of replying over and over again to a message which was intended as the subject says, an ANNOUNCEMENT. It's simply a pain to follow such a thread when the topic changes all over. Such a pity that it's not possible for the author of a message to check some flag preventing replies, I'm almost sure Klaus would have turned on such a switch on these anouncements.
Well, maybe the "Followup-to:" header could help here, but I'm not sure whether there is one that prevents any replies to a message. "Followup-to: poster" explicitly directs replies to the original author - but that's not what I would want. Are there other keywords for this that could achieve the wanted goal?
Plus: I'm not sure whether a "Followup-to:" header would correctly make it through the mailing list software. So for a test I'm setting "Followup-to: poster" in this message. ANYBODY REPLYING TO THIS MESSAGE PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SEND YOUR REPLY TO THE LIST INSTEAD OF ME PRIVATELY! (just capitalized this to make sure it gets read - didn't mean to get loud ;-)
@Klaus: want to try including a notice in every such original announcement, asking people to start new threads with specific problems related to the new release?
Do you really believe this would change anything? ;-)
Klaus