On 21-Nov-2012 12:58:10 Chris Green wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:42:58PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:37:52 +0000 MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop allegedly wrote:
How is this a reply about text editing, linebreaks and so on?
It isn't.
Please, if you're starting a new topic, click "Compose..." or the email address, rather than "Reply..."
He did. Check the subject line.
Changing the subject doesn't stop the message also being a reply to an existing thread. The MessageID is preserved when you R[eply] and many (good) mail programs use this to show the messages as a thread. Hence what I think MJ Ray was saying was that this appeared in the message thread about "text editing, linebreaks" whereas it should have been a new thread. -- Chris Green
Indeed. From the headers to Laurie Brown's original message Ted.(which started the "WITCH" sequence):
From: Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com Subject: [ALUG] The WITCH is dead! Long live the WITCH! Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:06:08 +0000 References: E1TaRN8-0003id-PA@petrol.towers.org.uk In-Reply-To: E1TaRN8-0003id-PA@petrol.towers.org.uk
and, if you search message headers for "E1TaRN8-0003id-PA", you will find:
From: MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop Subject: Re: [ALUG] Console editor with 'linebreak' Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:26:46 +0000 Message-Id: E1TaRN8-0003id-PA@petrol.towers.org.uk
(and this was the latest one in the "Console editor with 'linebreak'" thread). So Laurie's message was indeed a reply to MJR's.
So changing the subject line does not suffice to break the thread, since its spoor is preserved in the "References:" and "In-Reply-To:" headers, and these are usually what is tracked by mail clients when building threads.
On the other hand, starting a new topic with "Compose New" will not incorporate any reference to previous messages, so indeed starts a new thread.
Hoping this helps, Ted.
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