I ping it and got this

[Derek Broughton]

Sebastian Gil wrote:

> 2006/7/24, William Biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com>:
>> kc8pdr at kc8pdr-desktop:~$ ping us.archive.ubuntu.com
> 
> Please don't start a new thread, 

He didn't:
References:   <1153777383.8563.0.camel at kc8pdr-desktop>
<82847b70607241449k5a226223lca746a0b086dd442 at mail.gmail.com>

> just hit reply and don't edit the subject 

Why not?  Decent mail readers handle threads with changed subjects. In this
case it probably has no value, but no harm either.

-- 
derek