WOLips wrote the following on 10/5/2004 2:20 PM:
First, please try to remember not to reply to a message in a thread and change the subject (it will screw up how a lot of e-mail clients sort threaded e-mails).
i do this for months, how can you recognize this?
I believe it works on the fact that decent mail clients (like Thunderbird) will thread based on the message id, not the subject. View the source of a message and a reply-to the message. Look at the original messageID and then in the reply message you'll see an In-Reply-To ID. For example in this thread there was a message:
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and viewing the source of a reply message you'll see:
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is useful since it will allow for someone to alter the subject line and keep the thread intact. This is normally what you want like for when a thread starts out one way and then slightly changes so someone changes the subject line but it still is part of the original thread.
If you start a brand new subject though by replying to an email and just changing the subject line your message might not even get read because it might end up buried in a thread that no one cares about.
And yes, you do see this happen all the time on this list. Usually I don't even bother to comment on it but occasionaly I do when I reply:)
It helps everyone if people start a new subject with a new e-mail vs hi-jacking a reply message.
-- Rick
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