<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Raphael Attie wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Peter,<br>I apologize for the inconvenience but I'm not sure what you meant by "usurping previous thread", could you be more specific ? In mail (v3.6), I only have "Reply" or "Reply all" or "Forward". I don't have anything else.<br>When posting a new thread, I simply clicked "To" with [Os X Tex]+my_subject as the subject header.<br>Or are you refering to the fact that all previous messages are in my replies ? this of course I can change it.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Could you please learn to start a new thread by not usurping the previous thread? In Mail you can click on the To or Reply-To header to start a new thread...<br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Raphael,<div><br></div><div>What Peter is referring to is the practice of clicking on "Reply" in order to start a new topic.</div><div>You can read more about it at the "List Reminders and Etiquette" page linked at the bottom of every List message.</div><div>This practice really gets irksome because "threaded" mail readers can tell that you clicked "Reply" - you are guilty of this on at least one occasion, more specifically, in the thread "problem with \caption in Mactex 2009" you replied to another message "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>In-Reply-To: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><<a href="mailto:4115492A-F82A-417E-95AB-4995F288C965@mac.com">4115492A-F82A-417E-95AB-4995F288C965@mac.com</a>>" by starting a new thread entitled "amsmath and txfonts in Mactex 2009".</span></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, I realize that you started both threads, but you really shouldn't change the title in the Subject line, as some mail readers thread by Subject, as well as by the "In-Reply-To" header.</div><div>If you need to start a new topic, click "New Message", address it to the list, give it a Subject line that is relevant and unique enough that it won't get threaded into any ongoing messages, and then start typing.</div><div><br></div><div>If you don't Peter is going to chide you, and then I'm going to remind you again.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that clears things up a little.</div><div><br></div></body></html>