On Apr 3, 2004, Res <res@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i started this thread No you didn't. You *think* you started a new thread, but since the headers of your e-mail contained the following line: In-Reply-To: <406E743A.7090503@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> it's obviously not a new thread, but rather a follow up on Thierry's e-mail. Obviously you chose to reply to his posting and then attempted to make your posting look like it was a new thread, but the header above made it be part of the same thread, instead of starting a new thread. This is a practice known as `thread hijacking'. Correct behavior to start a new thread is to use commands such as `compose new message', `post' or however your MUA calls it. `reply to *', `follow up', etc, will all carry headers that will make your posting part of the same thread. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
