On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: >> on 8-26-2008 4:16 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: >>> >>> by changing the Subject line, and not retaining the reply-to context in >>> the mailheaders, you end up creating a new thread each time. so can you not >>> do that please ? >> >> Gmail also seems to sometimes munge the threading headers. > > If you click the "Edit Subject" link in gmail, it discards the other > threading headers. Gmail will only let you continue a thread if you > leave the subject unchanged. > > This does prevent the oft-seen complaint about people using the > "reply" action to start a new thread. Strange - I used to do that (edit the subject, in gmail) to start a new thread and it did not do the right thing either. I don't do that any more, but yowch! (heavy sigh, Orcan smile) mhr