Re: [tlug] OT Thread Hijacking

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:37:44PM +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Michal Hajek <hajek1@example.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Kenneth Burling (burlingk@example.com) [100222 12:21]:
> >
> >> 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?

Here is an example of where someone did just that in mutt. 

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/threadhijack.jpg

(Pic supplied to me years ago by JB---hrrm, I suspect we were having
this same conversation.)  


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