Every email thread (mailing list or not) gets a hidden identifier that is used to identify that thread. It is not that Outlook outsmarted John... any email program would have done the same.
John... please don't reply to existing posts with a new subject... many mailing list users may be using the threaded view in their email program and never see your question at all if they were not interested in the original thread. On January 26, 2023 11:31:39 PM PST, Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sar...@gmail.com> wrote: >From looking at the headers in John Sorkin's mail, my guess is that he >just replied to the other thread rather than starting a fresh email, >and in his attempts to hide that, was outsmarted by Outlook. > >This is based on references to domains such as yahoo.com, >dcn.davis.ca.us, and precheza.cz in the header, which were all >involved in the certification thread. > >-Deepayan > >On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:26 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: >> >> Às 06:39 de 27/01/2023, Rui Barradas escreveu: >> > Hello, >> > >> > When consulting the R-Help Archives today I've noticed that the thread >> > >> > Pipe operator >> > >> > started by John Sorkin, Tue Jan 3 17:48:30 CET 2023 is under another >> > thread, >> > >> > R Certification >> > >> > started by Mukesh Ghanshyamdas Lekhrajani. >> > >> > Isn't this a bug in the filing system? >> > >> > Thanks to the list maintainer Martin Maechler and ETH Zurich for >> > organizing and hosting the list for all of us. It's an invaluable tool >> > that has served so many R users along the years and that surely gives a >> > lot of work organizing and eventual headaches. I hope this is not one of >> > them. >> > >> > Rui Barradas >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> Maybe the attached screen capture makes it more clear. >> >> Rui Barradas >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.