[SciPy-Dev] email client is misconfigured - replies are breaking the threading

[Andras Deak]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Robert Lucente <rlucente at pipeline.com> wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:23:22 +1300
>>From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress
>>       on (Ralf Gommers)
>>
>>Hi Robert, note that your email client is misconfigured - your replies are
>>breaking the threading. Can you please look into that?
>
> I am not sure what "breaking the threading" means.
>
> In https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html, I found
>
> Use bottom-posting.
>
> When replying to a message, please use bottom-posting. This means quoting the content you reply to and inserting your replies below each quote. For more details, see posting style.
>
> Before, I was using Outlook from Microsoft Office Professional 2013. I have now switched to using EarthLink's Web Mail to reply to these emails. It seems to produce the appropriate number of ">".
>
> Is this better?
>
> If not, please make some suggestions. I just got my System 76 Bonobo running Ubuntu. Perhaps I need to use a Unix based email client?
>
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Looking at both gmail's view and the online archives at
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2018-January/thread.html
it seems that the subject of your emails that broke their respective
threads were edited. If you're posting to a thread, you should
probably preserve the automatic reply subject.
For example, there was a thread
"[SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress on big-ticket items"
then a new thread
"[SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress on"
then
"[SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress on (Ralf Gommers) "

As you see, every new thread at the archive corresponds to a change in
e-mail subject.
Regards,

András