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Please stop hijacking threads


  • Subject: Please stop hijacking threads
  • From: Andy Powell <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:41:57 +0000

Can people please stop hijacking someone else's *thread* it's hugely
annoying.

For those that don't understand replying to an unrelated message and
changing the subject does NOT start a new thread.

Message threading uses the Message-ID which is copied into any replies
you send as

References:
In-Reply-To:


For an example see Rob Mouser's 'More stuff on ebay' message which was
hijacked into 'LED Lighting'

How hard can it be to start a new message of your own?


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Andy Powell / ScaredyCat / FuzzyCat

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