wine users - Mar 2008 - Empty subject

There is something wrong with the forum. If people hit "PostReply"
button in the top-left the subject is not being populated. Considering that we
get so many clueless people here who don't even bother to see if the subject
is filled we got lots of broken posts.

Alternatively can forum enforce the non-empty subject line on replies?

vitamin wrote:
> There is something wrong with the forum. If people hit
"PostReply" button in the top-left the subject is not being populated.
Considering that we get so many clueless people here who don't even bother
to see if the subject is filled we got lots of broken posts.
> 
> Alternatively can forum enforce the non-empty subject line on replies?

There is nothing wrong with the forum. Subjects are not required for replies. I
don't see the issue here. I don't even see why this would upset you.

If you are worried about the mailing list, mail2forum will put in the subject of
the thread automatically.

Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> I've been receiving a lot of emails where all I see is a statement
> from the person posting in (I assume) the forum but not quoting any of
> the test that he or she is responding to. This makes it pretty much
> impossible for me to say much of anything in context so I'm just
> deleting these without much attention.
> 
> So far today it seems like this must be at least 50% of the traffic.
> 
> Are others seeing this also? Is anything about this caused on my end?
> 
> If this is happening because the default in the forum is to not
> quote the previous part of the thread I can completely understand
> that. That's the way a forum should work since you can see the post
> immediately above. However if that sort of post in the forum is sent
> to the email list without any context it's almost useless here I
> think.

This is a fundamental difference between Forums and the mailing list. In the
forum, replies are always shown in ascending order by post time, so it is not
necessary to quote a post above it.

Mailing list users could work around this by configuring your email client to
show posts in a threaded view. Thunderbird supports this.

Ahh, the joys of merging two distinct discussion communities into one pot.
Who's idea was this again?

jnewman wrote:
> If you are worried about the mailing list, mail2forum will put in the
subject of the thread automatically.
Yes that is what I was worried about. Thanks for clarifying it.