On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:34:28AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: : : What seems to have happened here is that Zach sent a new message to the : list by "reply"ing to an existing one (perhaps to save typing/looking up : the list address), then clearing everything he could see (including the : subject) and creating a totally new message (or so it seemed) -- but not : realising that hidden below the surface there might be headers that : referenced other messages in a thread. : : Hence _some_ people whose mail reader can identify the thread from these : headers (which presumes that they have already retained other messages : from the thread) will get the impression that the thread has been changed. : : But in Zach's message and headers as received by me there is no mention : of "Enabling /home/*/public_html to be seen in my web page". So presumably : anyone who saw that in the "Subject:" line as received by them had it : put in there by their own system. : : Right or wrong ... ? I'm guessing that many of the people that had issue (and rightfully so) were using mutt or MH, which correctly track via "References" and the Message-Id's that the header contains. The text of the subject may have been changed, but for all intents and purposes, the mail still "said" that it was part of a previous thread. For further clarification, I suggest checking out RFC 2822. --Jerry : -- : Check the headers for your unsubscription address : For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com : Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com : Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com : -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!