On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:50 AM, Graham Davies wrote: >> If you start a new topic, please don't >> do that by replying to another thread ... > > I'm very sorry. I completely deleted the subject and body of the message, > leaving only the list's e-mail address, in the expectation that that would be > the same as composing a new message. Obviously, something is going on that I > don't understand. I have no idea how my message could have been connected to > the previous one.
Two headers usually hidden from user's view and therefore few think to delete
them. Most find it easier to address a new email than to hunt down and delete
everything from a reply.
Is my understanding Gmail's online email client and possibly AOL's will
automatically delete those headers from a reply if the Subject is sufficiently
edited.
In-Reply-To contains the message-id of the prior message in the thread.
Sometimes a References header is used in place of or in addition to In-Reply-To
and differs only in that it may contain multiple message-id's which covers for
the situation where the prior message may not have arrived yet but some of the
others have.
Graham's first post to this "thread" contained:
> References: <20120807121459.gb...@atmel.com> <50215330.8050...@gjlay.de>
<20120808124618.ga5...@atmel.com>
And thats why it threaded elsewhere rather than start its own.
Its not a life-threatening deal, but it is one of those things that separate
quality technical lists from the riff-raff. The result is a higher quality list
archive.
If we don't politely point this out now and then nobody will know and this
wisdom will be lost as it already is on many other lists.
I think Graham handled it very well.
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David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net
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