Hi! You've successfully hijacked a thread, unfortunately this means that most people ignored your message for one of the following reasons: 1) They were ignoring the thread that you hijacked, and your message was threaded under it. 2) They ignore people who hijack threads. Most people don't fully understand what 'thread hijacking' is, when you send an email message your email client adds a special tag in the message header that's pretty much unique, then when people reply to that message your email client puts a tag in that says 'This message is in reply to that message'. This makes it so that nifty mail readers can sort messages more efficiently[1]. You may be wondering, 'But how did *I* hijack a thread if I didn't even know what it was!' Well, generally this happens when you're too lazy to click 'compose message' or 'new message' and type in the address, instead you press the reply button in your reader, then change the subject of the message, thinking that you've created a whole new message (while saving yourself the effort of typing in 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org', i know, it's taxing!). Unfortunately your email program is sneaky, and knows that you pressed the reply button, and still puts that magic 'This message is in reply to that message' header in there! [1] http://www.poptix.net/thread-hijack1.png http://www.poptix.net/thread-hijack2.png These are examples of thread hijacking, and a mail reader that 'threads', or groups messages, in the example you can see that 'Bob Tanner' started a new thread with the subject 'greyhatpak additions?', then a person named 'Andrew Nemchenko' "hijacked" the thread, and wanted to say something about 'some small OT but usefull news', needless to say, he got flamed =) Have a wonderful day. On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:15:31PM -0500, BN wrote: [snip] -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203
