Re: [tlug] OT Thread Hijacking

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:06:35 +0900, Kenneth Burling <burlingk@example.com>
wrote:

> One question.  If a person hits reply to an email, and then changes
> the subject completely and changes the body of the message completely
> (empties it and starts over) is there any reason that an email client
> should put that message into anything other than a new thread?

Yes. There is every reason.

The In-Reply-To: header, not normally visible but used specifically for
threading, which contains the Message-ID: of the message to which you're
replying. The References: header also may contain a list of Message-IDs.

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