How to avoid hijacking a thread

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:42:22PM +0200, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:52:39PM -0400, Dave Collins wrote:
> > > Could you please refrain from hijacking existing threads? You do that for
> > > the 3-rd time already.
> > Apologies, but how did I do that???  I sent an email to
> > lua-l@lists.lua.org, with a descriptive subject, exactly like I'm supposed
> > to.  I see nothing in my email that has anything to do with another thread.
> 
> Did you start your email by pressing reply and then clearing out the stuff
> from the old thread?  If so, then it's got hidden markers in the mail which
> indicate it to be part of another thread on the list; regardless that you
> cleaned the window out.
> 
> You should *never* start a new thread in this manner.
> 

For this mail, I started in this manner, but then used my mail client's
`Edit headers` function to remove the line starting `In-Reply-To`.

Let's hope it worked.

Dirk