Subjects, Topics and Threading

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On 9/14/2016 4:58 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote:
> At 05:42 PM 9/14/2016, Steven M Jones wrote:
>
>> How do you justify making everybody conform to your preferred behavior?
> I don't, but the behavior and archiving of this list is bound by the software that it runs under.
>
> Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
> http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html

I'm the one who last changed the subject of the aforemetioned thread (which is now not this thread).  It was my first time renaming a thread, and I'm confused as to what I did wrong.

How is sending a new email any different than replying / changing subject line?

Thanks,
   J.