On Thursday 17 June 2010 17:53, John Kaufmann wrote: > Andy, sorry that I don't have an immediate answer to your question, but > I do have a request: > Please don't hijack a thread for a new question; it's much better to > start your own thread. > > John
John, when you make a request like this you actually have to explain what hijacking is. You have to explain what threading is as well to people, as it is not a well known technique outside of project mailing lists. Thank-you however for keeping your reply civil and not flaming, however if you change the topic you should change the subject line. Andy - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thread%20Jacking&defid=2010833 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DonDiego/Thread_hijacking http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html A thread is a collection of emails replying to an original email. Many email clients can present this collection in a hierarchical view. Many of these email clients can also collapse that thread so only the original email subject/posters name/date is shown. When collapsed highlighting may indicate when new emails are sent to that thread. I have added a minimal image in a _small_ ODG document, which may require zooming, to illustrate. This shows, courtesy of KMail: 1. An expanded thread - "Keystone_install" (the minus "-" will collapse this thread if clicked on). 2. A collapsed thread - "How to Search Archives" - (the plus "+" indicating there are replies collapsed, thus not shown). 3. A thread with no replies - "openoffice.org" - (no plus or minus). Many people do not know that many of us can opt to ignore any further emails in a thread if the thread is not in our field. I can and frequently do, right click and "ignore thread". So to reply to someone else's email with a new subject may get that subject ignored by up to half the people that may be able to usefully contribute to it. Often this can be overcome with a right click on the desired email address and selecting something like "Compose Email To". This option is dependent on your email client. HTH -- Michael
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