Thread Stealing [was Installing MP3 for Amarok? How?]

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Jan 11 16:50:45 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:21:29 -0800,
  Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  I wonder if what is happening is that since I do not have a mailing 
> address list yet for this email client, what I do from time to time is to 
> reply to a random thread, clear the subject and body fields, and begin a new 
> subject/body message and then fire it away.

You generally don't want to do that, though if your email client (e.g. mutt)
allowed you to clear the threading headers you could make this work. I
think it would still be more work than:

> So, I guess I MUST initiate/create a NEW message, and either type in the To: 
> field or get it from the address book?  Don't just grab a thread and create a 
> new message.  Wow.

Yes.




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