Playing real player files

[Derek Broughton]

manchicken wrote:

> On Thursday 10 May 2007 16:18:59 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Mark Wallace wrote:
>> > I thought that changing the topic prevented that.
>>
>> Only with bad mail/news programs.  Strictly speaking, the subject has
>> nothing to do with threading, but since Outlook Express didn't originally
>> understand that, most mail & news programs have been forced to include
>> the
>> option of threading by subject.  Properly, threading occurs when the
>> headers reference the message-ID of a prior message.
> 
> I fail to see what the point is here.  His post was most certainly on
> topic.

Hey, don't complain to me.  I didn't object to content - I just explained to
him why changing the subject line doesn't create a new thread.  Clearly,
one person felt the thread was hijacked, and Mark felt that things had
changed enough to start a new thread.  Where's the problem in explaining
how things _really_ work?
-- 
derek