> and what is 'hijacking a thread'? i never heard of it before, unless > you mean simply not changing 'Subject' when you should.
It's starting a new (and entirely unrelated) thread by replying to an existing post and replacing its subject line with your own, rather than by composing a wholly new post from scratch. It's generally done by folks who don't know any better, often because either they've never used threading, or their [brain-dead] mail/news clients can thread on the subject only. :) As many mail and/or news clients thread messages based not upon merely the subject line, but rather upon the "References:" header (so as to properly place subthreads with changed subject lines within their parent threads), this causes these posts to appear where they shouldn't in the 'tree'. And I agree with Mac, it's *very* annoying behavior. Kudos to the OP for reading up on it and resolving to mend his ways. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." - Andy Rooney
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