On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > 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.
Please bear in mind that References: is only a "standard" header for Usenet (It's in the never-completed RFC1023bis) and there are no applicable standards for mail clients using it. Mail clients threading off "In-Reply-To" can have all sorts of threading issues as it's not a standard header and many clients don't insert it. I used to get heated under the collar about threading issues but realised 10 years ago that there wasn't much point... :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
