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It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> 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`.

  How hard is it to create a new email to "lua-l@lists.lua.org"?  Is it
really easier to edit the headers?

  -spc (And I thought I used an old email client ... )