* Roy D.Mercer
From: Patrick Shanahan
[snip ...] Chris, if you will turn full headers on in kmail, you will see a line 'References:' that has the history of the thread. You are still responding to the original thread (not yours), as am I 8^( You must delete that line to start a new thread when responding to an existing message. Or, start a completely new message, not reply, by typing in new addresses, not erasing or changing existing addresses.
I hate to be rude, but what difference does it make on hijacking a thread as long as it gets to the list? I am somewhat a newbie also and I see this topic come up all the time and I don't understand what all the fuss is about it?
You are not being rude, but courteous by asking. If you go to the archives looking for a topic and the threading does not follow, you will have a horrible time trying to follow. And anyone utilizing a threaded mail-client (mutt, kmail, pine, etc) and displays their mail by thread cannot follow a subject in the regular mail. A thread is a string of conversation following a particular subject and is identified by the continuing subject and/or the 'References:' header. Hi-jacking is comparible to abruptly change the subject of an oral conversation (rude and inconsiderate). There have been many discussions about this in this venue and are available in the archives, location available in the trailer generated by SUSE. I am sure that others can offer similar but, perhaps different interpretations. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org