On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 18:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I started a new subject by replying to myself
Um, no you didn't... You added a new reply to your old thread, with a
different subject line. Your (wanted it to be a) new message is buried
I wrote "new subject" and not "new thread" because I meant "new
subject".
in the middle of an old thread, where it may get ignored by someone
who
has the answer for your problem, but is ignoring this thread...
When creating a "new" message, or a "new" topic, actually create a
new
message, don't reply to another one. Changing what's typed into the
subject line isn't good enough. Other headers, which aren't displayed
in your message editor, tie messages together (see the in-reply-to and
references headers).
I didn't create a new thread because I didn't want to create a new thread.
It's possible that making a new thread would have been better.
Adding to the old one was deliberate.
Effectively sending it twice was a mistake.
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Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."