From: "Phil Schaffner" <P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org> > > Ed, > > I'm sure your contribution would be much appreciated, but please do not > hijack threads by doing a Reply and changing the subject. Your post > shows up embedded in the thread due to mail headers that preserve the > context and messes up threaded mail readers that many people use. > Please start with a new message, not a Reply. > > Regards, > Phil I'd seen references to hijacking a thread but hadn't realized what that meant. I've looked at my sent mail headers and found a References: header item. Hadn't seen that before. Is that what the list uses to tie threads together? I was naively thinking it was the subject that made it part of the thread, but always thought that was a flimsy method. D'oh! I shall not do that again. My sincere apologies.
