On 7/15/05, Jinx <joecolquitt@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> > > reply, change the subject and their message is displayed in the
> > > middle of a wholly unrelated thread.
> >
> > But as you said, they changed the subject.  So they are starting
> > a new thread.  I don't think I start new threads that way, but I
> 
> Hmmm, I can't appreciate what you see at your end Matthew. As
> Olin says above, if you're replying to a post and strip out everything
> except the To:piclist and type in a new subject - isn't that a new
> thread ? 

No, because your mail client preserves some information that you
probably don't see, that other mail clients (GMail, Mutt, etc) use as
hints for threading... this way you can track threads even if the
subject lines change.

Once again it's an MS thing that screws it up for other people that
follow the specs. (Sigh... it's been a long day and I'm grumpy).

Alex

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