Reply to wrong thread

Markku Kolkka markkukolkka at kolumbus.fi
Sat Jan 3 12:14:14 UTC 2004


John Li kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Lauantai 03. 
Tammikuuta 2004 02:43):
> 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'. 

This is called "thread hijacking" _DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!_

> The email I sent and received back 
> from the list has no reference that I can see to the thread
> called "Re: Printing Problems".

It has references you *don't* see (with the default options of 
most mail programs).

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	Markku Kolkka
	markku.kolkka at iki.fi





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