On Saturday 16 June 2007 21:28, you wrote:
> Rajko M. wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 June 2007 19:29, Clark Sann wrote:
> >> Anyone have any idea how I can get a 100 MB Iomega parallel port drive
> >> to work.  I've connected it, have a zip drive in the drive, and
> >> rebooted.  AFAIK, the system did not recognize the drive.  I've spent an
> >> hour googling and am afraid I will have to recompile the kernel to add
> >> support for this think.  Heck with that!  I bet openSuse has an easier
> >> way.  I've also browsed around Yast but couldn't find anything there.
> >> Finally, I installed 2 programs....gtkzip and ziptool.  Neither work.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help!
> >>
> >> Clark
> >
> > Hi Clark,
> >
> > Please post your question as a new message to opensuse mail list.
> > Changing subject doesn't remove referrals that make message threaded,
> > so you basically hijacked the thread which is not very popular.
> >
> > BTW, gtkzip and ziptool are file compression tools that will not make
> > Iomega ZIP drive running.
> >
> > Until you repost message I'll see how to connect parallel port ZIP drive.
>
> Rajko
>
> I'm confused.  

Me too. 
KMail threaded your message with existing thread.
I got Kmail closed and opened again with the same problem, but after running 
some filters it redraw the window and everything was in place. 

> I thought I started a new thread.  Are you saying that 
> there is some sort of referral hidden in my message that caused my
> message to appear as part of some other thread, even though I changed
> the subject?  Tell me more about this please.  

It is in the header of the message field 
  References:
In Thunderbird press keys Ctrl+u and it will open new window with message in a 
raw format. Scroll down and look for line starting with "References:". 
Even you message that came direct to me has this field with other messages 
listed. 

> How do I start a new 
> thread?  

You did it right, it is my mail client that messed displayed threads. 

> I just looked on the opensuse archive and it looks like I 
> actually did start a new thread...
>
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-06/threads6.html
>
> Can you explain this to me?

No. 
I have to look into it and see if I can reproduce error as it makes my answers 
out of place. Added another mistake I made it looks even worse :-( 

> Also, thanks for looking into the zip drive for me.
>

That might be the easiest part :-) 
I'll post what I find as answer to your first message. 

-- 
Regards,
Rajko.
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