Not Thunderbird it doesn't. TB is smart enough to know that Re: and Fwd:
get sorted with the original posting. Are there clients that don't
understand this convention which must go back to the Olden

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 9/25/2007 12:16 PM mordo wrote:

> As long as we are critiquing posting style, can we please leave the "Fwd:"
> or "Re:" out of the subject line when responding to a post? It causes email
> clients to ungroup the messages thus disrupting the thread. Also, please
> refrain from changing the subject of a message you are replying to. It also
> ungroups the messages in a thread.
>
> Thanks for your consideration and attention to grammar.  ;]
>
> mordo
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com>
> Date: Sep 25, 2007 12:24 AM
> Subject: Doesn't Anyone Read The Messages They Respond To?
> To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>
> Just returning from a three week trip and catching up on the email.. I just
> ran into the third thread where it was obvious that people started writing
> an answer before reading the whole original message.  Please people, read
> and understand the question before cluttering the list with answers that
> don't make any sense based on the information provided in the original
> message.  Example:  "I pumped the brakes several times but the pedal still
> went all the way to the floor"  and the response was "Did you try pumping
> the brakes?"  And as for watching a thread get completely off the original
> topic enough has been said about that in the past.
> Okay, off my soap box and donning Nomex....
>
>
> --
> mordo
> 1990 Carat
>