On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:05:16PM -0600, Nathan Rackliffe wrote: > >For those of you just tuning in to our show tonight, threaded mail readers > >follow the "In-Reply-To:" headers in the email messages, or for lame > >mailers that don't send them, they'll usually follow subject lines too. > > > >So when you "Reply" instead of starting a new message, you effectively > >hijack the middle of the thread and make it all about a different topic. > >Which means with some readers, you get two (or more) separate threads > >about the original thread/topic, and with other readers, you get one big > >thread with 2 or more different topics interspersed throughout it. > > > > > It showed up as a new thread in Thunderbird. I didn't know it was > offensible, but I've been guilty of doing that on most of my posts to > the list. >
Or in mutt, when you see the annoying problem hit '#' and it'll break the thread at that message. Very nice. We loves mutt. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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