On Monday 25 Aug 2003 6:02 pm, Lanman wrote: > HaywireMac; No knickers to worry about! You might be right about > the hijack, under the conditions you specified. I didn't see a > hijack happening, because my thread was under a different name. > Just so you know, I've never even seen any list of rules, didn't > even know they existed until now. When I signed onto the list > (dinaosaurs were just fading out of existence back then, LOL!), > there weren't any rules mentioned there. Usually, I use the "reply" > function in my email client to respond or to post to the list. > Since the function is there, I just make use of it. But if I'm > changing the contents of the subject-line, I interpret that as a > new thread. Maybe that's where I'm going wrong? Or maybe the server > just handles it that way. > Actually, Lanman, that *is* what caused the problem. If you check the full headers of a thread you will see a list of reference such as
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is what is used to keep threads together, so if you erase a subject line to start a new thread it is still linked by the references. Anne
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