Rick Archer wrote: >on 6/27/05 2:42 PM, Bhairitu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Rick Archer wrote: >> >> >> >>>OK, let me reiterate to make sure I understand it. Tell me if I'm wrong: >>> >>>If you want to change the name of a thread from your email client, you can't >>>just reply to an existing message and change the subject, because hidden >>>code in your email will associate it with the old thread. Instead, you have >>>to create an entirely new message, and if you wish, paste something from the >>>previous thread in the new message. Same with the subject line. Paste the >>>old title in the subject line if you wish, but add "new subject, was:" >>>before it. >>> >>>--------------- >>> >>>If this is correct, I'll add it to the site guidelines. Please correct >>>anything that needs correcting. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>That's correct. From the technical webmaster discussion I recall that >>Yahoo looks at the header and if there is a thread id it tacks it on to >>the end of that thread. Otherwise it would work. I may be wrong but I >>think Majordomo which was a popular list server software may have >>started a new thread when the subject was changed. >> >>If I have a chance later I'll look at a group I moderate to see if there >>are any options but I doubt. One thing this group does seem to do right >>or Yahoo fixed it or it was an option, was that on some groups it would >>take the time stamp of the sender rather than GMT and folks would look >>psychic answering questions in the order before they were listed. :) >> >> > >Let me know for sure before I add this to the guidelines. This is a fairly >complex instruction. We can't even get people to snip or change the subject >now. Not sure how many people are going to go to this trouble. > > > I checked and didn't see any such settings. They seem to keep things very simplistic. I wouldn't worry much about putting it in the guidelines unless you just want to remind folks they may not get the result they intended trying to start a new topic by changing the subject. I've see folks ask on groups what happened to their post when it was there buried in a topic they'd been reading. In many of those cases that message was completely non-sequitor to the topic.
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