As long as you feel the need to lecture others on their email manners,
how about dumping the superflous X-message-flag: headers in your emails?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew S. Hallacy [mailto:poptix at techmonkeys.org] 
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:11 AM
> To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org
> Subject: Re: [TCWUG] Cisco AP1200
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
>         You've successfully hijacked a thread, unfortunately this
> means that most people ignored your message for one of the following
> reasons:
> 
> 1) They were ignoring the thread that you hijacked, and your message
> was threaded under it.
> 
> 2) They ignore people who hijack threads.
> 
> Most people don't fully understand what 'thread hijacking' 
> is, when you
> send an email message your email client adds a special tag in 
> the message
> header that's pretty much unique, then when people reply to 
> that message
> your email client puts a tag in that says 'This message is in reply to
> that message'. This makes it so that nifty mail readers can 
> sort messages
> more efficiently[1].
> 
> You may be wondering, 'But how did *I* hijack a thread if I 
> didn't even
> know what it was!' Well, generally this happens when you're 
> too lazy to
> click 'compose message' or 'new message' and type in the 
> address, instead
> you press the reply button in your reader, then change the 
> subject of the
> message, thinking that you've created a whole new message 
> (while saving
> yourself the effort of typing in 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org', i 
> know, it's
> taxing!). Unfortunately your email program is sneaky, and 
> knows that you
> pressed the reply button, and still puts that magic 'This 
> message is in
> reply to that message' header in there!
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.poptix.net/thread-hijack1.png
>     http://www.poptix.net/thread-hijack2.png
> 
> These are examples of thread hijacking, and a mail reader 
> that 'threads',
> or groups messages, in the example you can see that 'Bob 
> Tanner' started
> a new thread with the subject 'greyhatpak additions?', then a person
> named 'Andrew Nemchenko' "hijacked" the thread, and wanted to 
> say something
> about 'some small OT but usefull news', needless to say, he 
> got flamed =)
> 
> 
>                         Have a wonderful day.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:29:51PM -0700, Richard T Nechanicky wrote:
> > Anyone know how or where to purchase the 802.11a radio
> > for this unit?
> > 
> > THX...
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, 
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