Re: New Topic

[Jarrod Roberson <jarrod@...>]

Brian Weed wrote:

> The email message format knows if it is a reply or not?  Very interesting.
>
> I assumed that the only indication that it is a reply is when "RE:" is
> prepended to the subject line by the client.
>
> My client also does not regard my "New Topic" email as part of the same
> thread as the original from which I replied, since it must follow threads by
> the subject.
>
> What clients are you guys using?
>
> Brian.
>
>  
email has always worked that way, the headers have a "in-reply-to" just 
for the purposes of threading.
usenet works that way to and it is just as inconvienient when people 
either don't "reply to" and just use the same
subject like , or do a "reply to" and change the subject.