[hijacked threads]

[chris]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 09:10 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 27 March 2010 20:14, Chevhq Car <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My apologies to all that this has affected.
> > I am unsure what has gone wrong or why I inadvertantly hijacked this thread
> > regards
> > Chris
> 
> I am guessing that what happened is that you opened an email in the
> original thread, cleared out the contents and changed the subject and
> sent that.  The problem with that is that even though you changed the
> subject the headers of the email (which you do not normally see) still
> included threading data that linked it to the original mail.  The more
> sophisticated email apps use this data for threading so to those users
> it appears that you hijacked the mail.  Other apps (such as gmail
> unfortunately) just use the subject line for threading so to those
> users it appears as a new thread.
> 
> Colin
> 
Ah, and I am using gmail.
Thank you
regards
Chris