I looked into the headers, and saw all the thread tracking info. I had no
idea this was going on in the background. Sorry for any confusion this might
have caused in your mail clients!
- Luis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@wolff.to>
To: "Luis H." <pgsql-novice@geekhouse.no-ip.com>
Cc: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] ORDER BY question
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:57:04 -0400,
> "Luis H." <pgsql-novice@geekhouse.no-ip.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the info! Group by should do the trick.
> >
> > Why does replying to an unrelated message create an issue, btw? I
changed
> > the subject, headers and contents of the e-mail. Or at least I thought I
> > did!
>
> Because message threading isn't tracked by subject. There are other
> headers that indicate a message is a reply and you didn't change the one
> your mail client uses. Doing this hides your message in a thread with
> a different topic.
>
> > Also, why do people reply to both the message sender and the mailing
list?
> > Doesn't it just arrive duplicated in the sender's mailbox.
>
> How do we know you are subscribed to the list?
>
> If you don't want to be copied personally, setting the mail-followup-to
> header will do this for many clients.
>