On Tuesday 16 November 2004 22:34, Vince Littler wrote:
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 8:25 pm, Brian Jackson wrote:
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 00:21, Johan Nielsen wrote:
Plz start a seperate thread for this issue.
Umm, I did start a separate thread.
You thought you did, but actually you started composing your email by replying to a random mail on another topic and then clearing out the Subject and body, thinking that is sufficient. If you do this, many people will know that this is what you have done, because for their email client it will appear in the thread you randomly chose to reply to.
What happens is that every reply contains information that refers to the message you "replied" to: the 'References' header and the 'In-Reply-To' header. These are from the message I replied to: References: <200411141657.25620.michaeltnorman@ukfsn.org> <200411160921.01491.yep@osterbo-net.dk> <200411161225.58978.brian@brianjacksonphoto.com> In-Reply-To: <200411161225.58978.brian@brianjacksonphoto.com> (actually they are just two lines) Whith this information, several newsreaders (KMail) can display messages in a tree like way: Subject1 | +-- Re: Subject1 | +-- Some different subject that does not belong here | +-- Re: Subject1 I like this very much. Sometimes people (yes, me too) get a bit upset if the threading is disrupted by a 'thread-hijacker'. ;) The way I prevent myself from hijacking threads is: In KMail, I click on the email-address of the list that usually is displayed in the 'To:' header of the mail I'm viewing. In KMail this is click-able, and a click opens a 'New email' with the right address already inserted.
People will tell you that you have hijacked a thread, but never actually explain how they know or why this is bad. There, I have said too much already.
Vince: I don't think you said too much. Perhaps it is good to explain this once in a while. :) Cheers, Leen