Re: Please stop hijacking threads

[David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

To add to this, what this means is that for anyone using a threading
email reader all the emails, both original and hijacked, get mixed in
together. It makes it very much more difficult to follow the thread.If
you read emails in a mail tool that collapses threads into a single
line then the hijacked thread will be under the original title.

This means it may not be read if the orignal thread was not
interesting, and YOU (Mr Hijacker) may miss out on a response from a
person who has the information you were looking for!

Cheers

David


On 9 Mar 2009, at 10:41, Andy Powell wrote:

>
> 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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