On Thursday 10 January 2008 09:11:06 am Paul Lemmons wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2008 08:21:59 am Paul Lemmons wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > also... please do not reply to a different message and change the > > > subject to post to the list. This is called "thread stealing" and it is > > > very impolite. > > > > > > Thanks for the tip. > > > > Uh, can you explain what you mean by 'thread stealing'? I wasn't > > even aware I was doing what you pointed out. Can you cite a reference > > where I was doing that? > > > > I am sincere what I am asking so that I can prevent myself from doing > > it unconsciously. > > > > Thanks! > > When I saw your original note it appeared as a reply to a note discussing > "ntpd". For this to happen you more that likely (I am guessing) did a > "reply" on that note to pick up the address of the list and then changed > the subject and replaced the body of the note. When you do this there are > still headers that are preserved from the original note that allows an > email client (like T-bird or Kmail) to thread the messages, keeping > "conversations" grouped together. What I saw was a discussion of ntpd > interrupted by a change in "conversation" caused by your note. If I have > made a mistake, please accept my apology. My comment was not meant as a > flame. There may be other ways to cause this to happen and T-bird may have > lost its mind. All things are possible :) > No offense. Just wanted to make sure that I have a functioning email program and not being simply ignorant. It is interesting that I am definitely using Kmail! But from what I can tell, it appears at my end that I created a new message, and then simply hit the 'reply to' button, added my comments to the bottom of the file, and fired it away. I could not see anything that was added inadvertently by Kmail - but if you do see something that is 'added/mutilated/whatever', please reply with the offensive message - I'd like to know if Kmail is doing something behind my back.
