Reply to wrong thread

[Mike Klinke]

On Friday 02 January 2004 18:43, John Li wrote:
> > Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > First of all, why did you post this message as a reply to the
> > thread called "Re: Printing Problems"? You did want to compose an
> > entirely new
> > message, didn't you?
>
> Correct, but I'm curious why this showed up as such a reply.  I
> picked an arbitrary message and used 'reply' in order to get the
> email address (which I never remember) and to send the email from
> the correct email address.  However, I changed the subject line,
> deleted all previous text, and changed the email format to
> 'plain text'.  The email I sent and received back from the
> list has no reference that I can see to the thread called
> "Re: Printing Problems".  Did you put this comment in the wrong
> email, or is there something I don't know about that is used
> to track threads?
>

==== The message you used as a starting point =======

Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:08:10 -0700
From: "Ronald Hahm" <hahmr at myrealbox.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Printing Problems
Message-ID: <000001c3d174$94619320$0901a8c0 at HAHMPC9>
 

===== The message you sent ===========

From: "John Li" <johnli at ahlt.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Problem updating Mozilla with up2date
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416
In-Reply-To: <000001c3d174$94619320$0901a8c0 at HAHMPC9>


Note that the "In-Reply-To:" identifier is the same as the 
"Message-ID" in Ronald's message.  This causes the mail client to 
group messages together. See: 

http://www.futzin.com/li.jpg 

for a display of what your message technique above does to mail 
clients which honor threading.

Regards, Mike Klinke