On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:09:48PM -0500, Kremer wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > Way to hijack a thread. Very nice. > > Please explain...I see you whine about this somewhat often, but never > cared enough in the past to figure out what you were talking about. Hijacking a thread is when you reply to a message on a list and totally change the subject. Usually this happens because someone who can't be bothered to type in the address of the list decides it's easier to just reply to the list than start a new message addressed to the list. Those of us with mail readers that link replies to messages together into threads see this message with a totally different subject and wonder, "WTF does this message have to do with this thread!?! Does this person know how to start a simple email without hitting the MF reply button!?!" So please, if you're starting a new topic of discussion, please start a new message. Hitting the reply button usually adds headers to the email that says the message is in reply to some other message(s) which are in the thread. Starting a new message starts a new thread without any references to previous messages. Nate, who also hates thread hijackers