On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 02:36:06PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 08:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[mumble mumble]
> Thanks for your explanation Tomas.
You are welcome. But bear in mind that this is yet a hunch, not
backed by evidence, so use with care :)
> > Please, don't hijack threads
>
> ...but what did I do wrong re thread hijacking?
>
> I understand that to mean changing the content of an existing thread, as a
> quick google seems to confirm.
>
> I did delete the content and change the subject of an existing email, which
> appears to me to create a new thread, rather than preserving "conversation"
> links to the deleted content/subject.
>
> Am I mistaken or did you mean something else?
Don't take that personally. Just as a reminder to us all. I do fall
into this trap from time to time, too.
In your case, you did edit the subject -- but you left the message
references intact. Quoting from your headers:
In-Reply-To: <20201122042154.gu7...@bitfolk.com>
References: <1182213078.73974.1605925808686....@mail.yahoo.com>
<1182213078.73974.1605925808...@mail.yahoo.com>
<20201121085613.ga12...@tuxteam.de> <E1kgYR5-0004Cq-4S@wb5agz>
<20201121213621.gn7...@bitfolk.com> <E1kgfQq-0006Ay-0j@wb5agz>
<20201122042154.gu7...@bitfolk.com>
Especially the header In-Reply-To is used by MUAs (and archive software)
to link mails together. In this case, it refers to a mail by Andy Smith
with the subject "780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/".
Cheers
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