On Jan 11, 2009, at 12:13 PM, James Warren wrote: > Sorry, sorry, sorry. I never knew how the technology worked until now. > I always assumed that if you change the name of the subject line, then > a new thread automatically begins. But now I've learned that the > thread > is still defined by the message to which you hit "reply". I always > thought I was doing it right.
No biggie. If you look at the headers for this message (in Apple Mail hit Cmd-Shift-H; I don't know about other applications) and scroll down, you'll see a header named "References:" which is how most mail applications sort e-mails into threads rather than using the "Subject:" header. So even if you change the subject, your post is still within that reference trace. Your brain, of course, tends to sort by the subject header and author and doesn't use the "References:" header at all, so the outcome of having posts with different subjects in the same thread looks weird. BTW, some e-mail programs "eat" or mangle the "References:" header; this results in posts to a thread not being included in the thread because your mail application doesn't have the information it needs to sort the post into the thread. Some mail applications can be configured to sort by "Subject:" instead of "References:". If you want to change the subject and start a new thread, open a new mail, address it, and cut and paste the appropriate text into the body. The usual convention is to make the "Subject:" something like "new title (was: old title)". --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
