Couple of questions

[Courtney Christensen]

On 10/2/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:24:46PM -0400, msmarti58 wrote:
> > > When you ask a question it is polite to start your own thread, meaning
> > > start a new email rather than piggybacking/hijacking someone else's
> > > thread. Please see:
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean. I hit reply (in Windows Live Mail, my email
> > client), changed the subject, and began my message at the top of the page.
>
> When you hit "reply", you replied to an existing thread. To avoid doing this
> you need to make a "fresh" email so that the existing headers for a different
> "conversation" will not cause your email to appear as part of that grouping.
>

The reason for starting a new email from scratch rather than replying
to a pre-existing one from the list is because some people use mail
readers which group discussions for them.  They are grouped by header
information rather than subject (Correct?).  So when you reply to a
pre-existing thread, people that use threaded readers see your
question mixed in with whatever thread you replied to.  Is that fairly
accurate?