[ic] Hijacking Threads (Was: __DOCROOT__ value in UserTag)
Mike Heins
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Apr 17 16:11:00 2003
Quoting Andy Mayer (andy@andymayer.net):
> Hi Doug,
>
> Many thanks for the detailed info and long reply.
>
> I am sorry and didn't intend to hijack the thread. Before Mike
> explained, I was totally ignorant of the "In-Reply-To:" header that
> maintains the threads. Instead, I naively thought that threading was
> done based on the Subject line (now I know better!).
>
> So to save me typing in the list address, I picked an old message, hit
> reply, and typed in the new subject, incorrectly thinking that would
> start a new thread. Now I am enlightened I will not do it again!
>
> Please accept my apologies,
No problem for me -- now I finally know what thread hijacking is!
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