Date:         Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:01:08 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: confusing subject lines
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At 05:11 PM 6/22/2012, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>"reply" function?  hasn't seemed to be that way before.  but what do
>I know?  maybe not much.  I certainly got access to the subject
>line, and changed it, though Jim says otherwise.

A little confusion here...the Subject: header changes, but gmail
(properly, if that's what it's trying to do) inserts it into the
current thread.  Since the web interface only shows you the latest
message Subject: unless you expand the thread, threads that have
morphed and had their subject lines changed will remain invisible to
gmail web users unless they happen to be the most recent message or
the user expands the thread.  Hence the advice that when a thread
morphs, you begin it anew instead of doing a reply all and merely
changing the Subject: as has been the habit of most of  us.

Yrs,
d