[mythtv-users] Re: why do people reply with a new topic?!

[Steven Bennett]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> 
> Chris Germano wrote:
>> There are a ton of people on this list that reply to someone else's
>> topic with a totally new problem/question that have nothing to do with
>> it. Do you guys just not know how to make your own topic or just forget?
>> Just email your problem/question with a new subject, not Re:
>> [mythtv-users] to someone elses post that has nothing to do with yours.
>> I'm completely baffled as to why this happens so much.. it really goes
>> against this mailing lists hierarchy system. Just my two sense.
> 
> I think the confusion is that some people don't realize that threads are
> identified by message IDs, not by the subject line.  Changing the
> subject doesn't change the 'In-Reply-To' in the message header.

Which has other side effects as well.  For example, this message may not be
detected as the same thread despite the subject being the same, because I'm
replying to a digest...

-->Steve Bennett