Thread Stealing [was Installing MP3 for Amarok? How?]
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jan 11 15:01:06 UTC 2008
> 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
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