Changing the subject line (Was: Format program?)

[thomas]

Sorry - I was not trying to hijack but to add to the thread.

Thomas

Amedee Van Gasse (u2s) wrote:
> On Wed, October 21, 2009 02:10, bqz69 wrote:
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>> Please do not change the subject line - then the message do not follow the
>> thread any  longer :-)
>>     
>
> That is not true. Changing the subject line does *not* break the thread. A
> sensible mail client (or usenet client if you use the mail<->news
> interface) looks at the References and In-Reply-To headers:
>
> References: <3c41e3b10910201527l391e0615kcbd0e19543cbc398 at mail.gmail.com>
>      <da9872c08da16c58594613ae89b0ff50.squirrel at amedee.be>
> In-Reply-To: <da9872c08da16c58594613ae89b0ff50.squirrel at amedee.be>
>
> A broken mail client will dump or ignore References and In-Reply-To, and
> this will break the thread even if the subject line is not changed.
> IOW, if you see breakage, your MUA is broken.
>
>
> OTOH if you wanted to say that someone should start a new thread for a new
> question, then you are absolutely right. Thread hijacking is not nice.
>
>