Crooks, thieves, kidnappers...

[John Hoffoss <john.hoffoss () CSU MNSCU EDU>]

..and thread-jackers.

Perhaps I'm the only person who reads lists with a client that threads conversations, but I doubt it. On behalf of 
those who do, this is a friendly request to actually press Ctrl+N, Cmd+M, or whatever buttons your client requires in 
order to create a NEW message, rather than REPLYING to a thread and changing the subject. Your mail client cleverly 
embeds a ThreadID field that allows smarter mail clients to track individual threads and group them. 

Except when you reply instead of creating a new message, you change the way the whole thread is displayed. Then people 
like me miss your thread entirely, or lose the thread I wanted to read in a flood of unrelated messages that are 
threaded together.

A very first-world problem, I know, but it gets old.

-jth
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John T. Hoffoss
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