Thank you Mike. That is exactly what I did. I did not touch Arnold's
message, as he indicates, but instead used Geoff's message to comment on
what happened to me when I tried to download.
Again - Thank you.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Fry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] [OT] Some email basics [Was: something totally
unrelated]
Arnold Sprague wrote:
Mike,
My complaint is that Ted removed my text from the message. As a result,
Sherry and others began to discuss Ted's concern and mine was lost.
Similarly, you removed part of my message when you made this reply.
Again, the guts of my message becomes lost.
Arnold,
Look at the date/time sequence of the messages in question. I think you'll
see that Ted didn't reply to your message. If I read things correctly, Ted
did exactly what you did - used Geoff Rasmussens' original 6.0.0.117
announcement message. So, to be pedantic, you both hijacked Geoff's
message :-)
To others that are wondering about the use of the terms kidnapping and
hijacking of threads. This occurs when people are not particularly careful
in their haste to start a new thread and inadvertently(?) reply to
whatever it was that the last message they were reading was. When they
reply to an existing message, their message, possibly under the guise of a
new, totally unrelated subject, becomes part of an existing thread. If
they were to have written a new message, a new thread would have been
started.
This happens far too often on this list and tends to muck up the message
threading. Please note, proper threading does NOT happen on the contents
of the message subject field. It happens through a normally unseen message
header (part of the message envelope if you like). When you reply to a
message, your reply contains a reference to the message that you are
replying to. This reference is used by all decent email clients (not
web-based email necessarily) to maintain the sequence of messages and
replies.
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Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
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