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Wiki to the rescue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_hijacking
The relevant text being:
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Thread Hijacking on a mailing list or newsgroup
Many people find that they are scolded on a list or newsgroup for thread
hijacking despite the fact that they changed the subject line, which
would seem to them to create a new thread. Most news and mail readers
use other headers such as "References:" to track and build the thread of
messages by message ID, and changing the subject line does not change
the actual threading in many news or email readers. Therefore, one
should always compose a new (and therefore reference-free) message when
changing topics. Alternatively one can start a new thread for the new
topic and link to the previous thread.
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So, if one were to, say, reply to this message and delete the text and
change the subject line, it would still be a part of this thread.
I guess I've now hijacked a thread to discuss thread hijacking... but...
whatever.
Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I agree with you (though I don't get upset by these things).
>
> You might have better success if you explain how one hijacks a mail thread.
> I
> suspect that many if not most people who do so don't know what a mail thread
> is and don't understand the hidden mechanism by which threading works (i.e.
> they think that changing the subject is sufficient). At least that was my
> personal experience until about 6 months ago when I turned on threading.
>
> On Friday 02 February 2007 22:57, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>> There has been a lot of thread hijacking lately. Can I please take this
>> opportunity once again to remind everyone to write a NEW message to
>> bacula-users, since if you do hijack a thread and someone like me is
>> reading it on a mail reader that supports threading, I have a thread
>> that contains completely unrelated e-mails (and that's obnoxious).
>>
>> Thanks for your anticipated cooperation. ;) (in addition, I'm personally
>> going to blow off all such e-mail as far as answering questions goes --
>> there may be others in that camp as well).
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