On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:50:10 +0100, Richard Melville 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Slightly off topic: can anybody say how much of the post title has to
> change before it's considered a different thread.  I ask this because I
> noticed right at the beginning that I had misspelt "discrepancy".  I
> didn't want to change it in case it messed up the thread; OK, call me a 
> pedant.

A sensible MUA will ignore the Subject header and just look at things like the 
In-Reply-To
and Message-ID headers.  On a related note, that's why it's generally frowned 
upon to start a
new thread by replying to an existing one, then deleting all the content and 
changing the
subject line.

Regards,

Matt.

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