John Haxby wrote:
On 23 March 2011 19:11, Srija <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Not sure what does it mean " hijack threads " :)
It is simple to understand that just somebody forgot to change the
heading...
Again sorry for not changing the heading
No, it means more than that. If you reply to a message yout get
"in-reply-to" and "references" headers in your new message, even if you
change the subject. The message you now send appears in the same thread
(or conversation for gmail).
A lot of people -- me included sometimes -- just delete without reading
messages that hijack threads.
It depends on what client you are using, but often you can right-click
on an address and choose "send message to this address" or something
like that. Or cut and paste address. Or type it in. But please don't
hijack threads.
(Sorry to everyone who knows this already.)
You probably need to explain that simply changing the subject of an
existing message and sending it to the list is what is defined as
hijacking. As you noted above, the message is sent with the header
information of the message you modified and it becomes threaded in with
the unrelated message that was originally modified.
I hope that makes sense to the original poster...
jch
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