Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/30/09:53:26
On 30 March 2006 15:43, Stefan Vorkoetter wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
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>> Quit commandeering threads. If you have a new subject, start a new thread
>> (ie. get rid of In-Reply-To headers from the old thread, not just changing
>> the subject line).
>
> Sorry, didn't see any such headers.
Your mailer creates many headers other than the "From" and "To" ones which
are under your control.
In particular, if you reply to an email, it creates an "In-Reply-To" header,
so that when anyone gets your reply, their mailer will attach it to the
existing thread/conversation.
If you reply to a post, your mailer sends it as a reply to that post, and
you can't trick it just by changing the subject line. So if you reply to a
post and write an irrelevant message about another topic, it still ends up as
part of the thread of the post that you replied to.
cheers,
DaveK
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