Hijacking threads (was: Arranging icons on desktop)

[Tim]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 10:11 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> how can you tell when the thread ends

When there are no more messages tied to it...  Mail clients that thread
messages will, somewhere in the list of messages (perhaps before the
subject line, perhaps just leftmost of the message listing), have an
indication that one message is related to another.  Often, little
triangles, or + and \ symbols on text-clients.  With follow-ups to
messages being below and indented, family tree style.  The thread ends
when there's no more siblings.

Original message
+- First reply
|
+- Second reply
   + A reply to the second reply
   + Another reply to the second reply
     + A reply to the above message
An unrelated message
Another unrelated message

If you hijack a thread by jamming your unrelated message into someone
else's thread, not only do you disrupt their thread, but your message
will not be seen by anyone else who's ignoring that thread.  Perhaps by
the one person who can answer you.



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