"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:38:59 -0800 (PST)
> Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mar 5, 12:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure why you change the address like this but could you
> please include the full address.

It's a misfeature of Google's mail interface. The poster to whom
you're responding could choose a different mail interface, but you'll
have a difficult time convincing them of that.

> Those of us who identify the time wasters would also like to drop
> the responses to their posts and changing the address makes this
> impossible.

Not at all. AFAIK the messages from Google mail correctly include the
'In-Reply-To' field or the 'References' field in the message header.
So, you can know by those fields whether a message is part of a thread
you've previously identified.

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