On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:07 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:57:34PM -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
>  >You can send direct mail by clicking "show details" in Gmail and
>  >pasting the poster's address in the To: field of the reply. Also, if
>  >you wish to move the direct message outside of the threaded
>  >conversation, you can use "Edit subject" to add (off-list) or
>  >something similar to keep it separated.
>
>  Except for modern email clients that use more than the subject to track
>  threads.  If you hit reply, there will still be a reply-to header, and the
>  message will show up right in the thread, even with a different subject.

Yes, but he mentioned using Gmail, and changing the subject line will
break the thread at least on his end. I have no ideal whether Google
alters the Message-ID header for other clients' sake when you change
the subject, though.

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Brad Beyenhof                                   http://augmentedfourth.com
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
                   ~ Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist (1564-1642)


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