On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 18:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I started a new subject by replying to myself
Um, no you didn't... You added a new reply to your old thread, with a different subject line. Your (wanted it to be a) new message is buried
I wrote "new subject" and not "new thread" because I meant "new subject".
in the middle of an old thread, where it may get ignored by someone who has the answer for your problem, but is ignoring this thread...
When creating a "new" message, or a "new" topic, actually create a new message, don't reply to another one. Changing what's typed into the subject line isn't good enough. Other headers, which aren't displayed in your message editor, tie messages together (see the in-reply-to and references headers).
I didn't create a new thread because I didn't want to create a new thread. It's possible that making a new thread would have been better. Adding to the old one was deliberate.
Effectively sending it twice was a mistake.