On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:10:48AM -0500, Kremer wrote:
> So does this have something to do with headers or some other thing I might
> not see?  As far as I could tell it WAS the beginning of a new thread.
> 

Yes.

Basicly instead of hitting *compose* (or 'new message' or whatnot) you hit
reply to a message you saw to save yourself the effort of typing in 
'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' (while taking the effort to delete the message
content, and subject). You then proceed to fill in your own subject and
message content.

Unfortunately your email client retains the 'In-Reply-To' header,
along with a few others.. Intelligent mail readers sort these messages so
that it's clear about who's replying to what.

Check out 
http://www.poptix.net/thread-hijack1.png and
http://www.poptix.net/thread-hijack2.png 

to see what it looks like to us.


(You = individual who hijacks threads, not you, Kremer)

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