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So, *please*, do us a favour and make up new mail when changing subject.


Since this is a pet peeve of mine also I am throwing my 2 cents in also, and try to help explain what is happening for those who do not understand email all that well (The more I understand about why something is happening the better off I am). And think they sort by subject and it is fine, it is not the subject that is the problem. When a message gets created it gets an ID the one I am replying to has something like this in the header Message-ID: <40C1A767.1080408@xxxxxxxxxx> the one Scott replied to has someyhing like Message-ID: <40C1A590.50308@xxxxxxxxxx> but it also has something like References: <20040604131845.39041.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In-Reply-To: <20040604131845.39041.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


You can see what this does to messages in the archives http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200406/threads.html And for the hijacked message http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200406/msg00144.html And for the new message http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200406/msg00180.html

What might help is a column with the mail to on this page http://www.midrange.com/archives.htm I use Mozilla Thunderbird ( http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ) and it is easy to right click on the reply to address and start a new email (Compose mail to) but I did not see and easy way in outlook, other then copy and paste, or to put it in the address book So to answer Scotts question "Now the question is, will people listen?" Some will, most will not.

John Ross





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