Re: [Phys-L] conflated threads

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

'Modern' emai contains an entry in the header that is a numerical 
'thread' designation. Anyone who responds to such an email is quite 
able to change the 'Subject' but doesn't change the header numerical 
thread designation.

This is the way that threads get 'hijacked'. In order to avoid such 
unintended hijacking each participant needs to start a NEW thread 
(original Posting) instead of taking the 'Easy Way Out' by 'just' 
changing the Subject line of an existing thread.

At least this is the way that I understand it.
 I was certainly guilty many times of taking the Easy Way on many lists.
But I try to do better now.

In order to avoid highjacking a thread - look into the headers of ANY 
email and select the 'Post to List' option. (or some such option. 
Others include Unsubscribe etc. Headers are powerful stuff. Use 'em )

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At 9:05 PM -0700 7/11/12, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> Why are these subjects in the same thread? 
>
> 	Subject:	[Phys-L] Energy Concept Inventory
>
> 	Subject:	[Phys-L] routine assumptions and plausible 
> hypotheses ... or not
>
> 	Subject:	[Phys-L] Private schools
>
> 	Subject:	[Phys-L] Higgs Boson Joke
>
> 	Subject:	Re: [Phys-L] [SPAM]  Re:  Private schools
>
> 	Subject:	[Phys-L] Landau and Lifschitz: statistical physics v.5
>
>
>
>
> bc worries it's his incompetent mail app.