-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 16:58, JR wrote: > Would someone clarify this for me please? > > "If you use Reply but change the subject, you are hijacking." > > Does this mean if you change the 'subject' field, or the topic of the > thread? Reading it, it would seem to mean the former. But common sense > tells me the latter. > If you use Reply to get up a form, then erase the subject and type in something different, you are hijacking.
If you use View > Headers > All Headers on this message you will see a line that starts with 'References;' . Since your message has the ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] that will be in the line. In other words, my answer to you is connected by thread. When you hijack, your 'new subject' retains that thread connection. This makes for difficulties: 1) The thread becomes fragmented and difficult to follow. 2) Many people follow or ignore a thread according to their own interests and time available. If the original thread was being ignored by the person best able to help you he will not see it. > I dont deal with common sense much so I said I'd ask :) > Asking *is* common sense. I hope it's clearer now ;-) Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB/OORkFAvMr/nNX8RAiKgAJ45UShPd1F1pUsTsDkn7/aZhcf43wCfZvFV HBL6hEQExusQaKo815O3wp4= =S5KI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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