Re: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for managing contacts across iphone and laptops

2016-09-26 Thread Monica Jones
Alan, thank you for explaining this. Sometimes I’ve been guilty of deleting the original subject but leaving in the body. This makes sense to me; I just haven’t thought of it before. ss From: Alan Lemly Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Best

Re: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for managing contacts across iphone and laptops

2016-09-25 Thread R Van Lant
Thanks, Alan, for explaining what I had unknowingly done with the hijack and for your input to my question. I didn't realize about the hidden links so thougth this was a good way to grab the group email address since I'd lost it in my contacts. On 9/22/2016 11:43 AM, Alan Lemly wrote:

RE: Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for managing contacts across iphone and laptops

2016-09-22 Thread Tony
Thanks for this. I’ve seen messages about hijacking threads but didn’t know this was what was meant. I always thought it was about messages that kept the same subject line but were about something else. I’m sure I have done it in the past. Tony From: viphone@googlegroups.com

Best Practice to not Hijack Threads was Re: best practices for managing contacts across iphone and laptops

2016-09-22 Thread Alan Lemly
Robin, I can't answer your question but I'd kindly ask you to please not reply to an existing message and then delete the subject and message body as if you were starting a new thread. This is called thread hijacking and though it might appear to you as if you've started a new post, there are