Thread Stealing [was Installing MP3 for Amarok? How?]

[Chris Jones]

> If your message is *not* a reply to someone else's, then do NOT use the
> reply feature of your mail client.  Create a "new" message.  On some
> clients you can do so simply by clicking on the "To" address of an
> existing message, to create a new message to that address.  On others,
> you'll have to create a new message and add the right to address to the
> "To: field.  For those, you can make life easier for yourself by adding
> the mailing list's address to your address book.

Very nice summary.

This behaviour is more often referred to as "Thread Hijacking" - It even 
has its own wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_hijacking

There seems to be a lot of this going around at the moment...

cheers Chris