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I think I have noticed something peculiar in the way that Yahoo Mail does its conversation feature. I would post this question to a Yahoo forum, or even to their customer service (do they have that?), but I remember the last time I sis that for an issue, I got some yahoo [pun intended] give me useless advice, so I have decided to post the question here, where intelligent folks lounge around [2nd pun intended too].
Some background as to why this is important. I am getting something shipped intercontinental (Europe - North America), and am using a website named freightnet.com to post the transport I need, and eager vendors contact me and try to win my business. Unfortunately there are a few scammers that lurk there  ; they have horrible reviews that state that they just take the money and do nothing AND the picture of the building for their HQ office is some residence in a typically swanky neighborhood (obviously due to the scam income).
Anyway, the way it must work is that this website blasts out E-mails to everyone that is signed up to listen, and the vendors that are interested simply reply to that E-mail (or simply send a new E-mail to me) with my E-mail as a CC and add their introduction from which a back & forth exchange can commence. If just the reply is done, then the subject of the E-mail received by me is of the form "RE:" OR "FW:" & "Freightnet Rate Request ID: ######". I'm thinking that the "FW:" gets used if the initial recipient of that E-mail blast forwards it to someone first, who then responds to me, so just having it have "FW:" could be perfectly normal.
For the latest go-round, I have 2 vendors that have done this reply, and when Yahoo mail is not in conversation mode, it does not seem that they are linked as one doing a CC of me to the other, and that one replying to me. However, in conversation mode, these 2 vendors are linked, and of course the reason it matters is that one of them seems to be a scam, whereas the other one does not. Obviously if they were linked in some way, I would consider both of them to be scams, but I would rather not do that as the non-scam one seems to be giving me a good price, which unfortunately is something that a scammer would do! (Of course, I will continue to do due diligence with that one that is currently considered to be non-scam.)
So, getting to the question at hand, I am wondering if Yahoo Mail simply looks at the subject line and if they match and with a "RE:" or "FW:" in front, and presumes that it is the same conversation, or do they do more diligence and have a way to tie messages together? Is there way of looking at the full header data to see if these 2 messages are really linked? I was able to lookup the country of the IP address of the sender for the non-scam vendor and it checks out as being from that country.
Anyway, any insight about this would be helpful!
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I don't use yahoo so never looked at the source of one but this may be a step closer to what you want.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3276.html[^]
One of their help links that explains how to view the header and what some of it means.
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Yes, there is a way to view the full email header, it is under the ...More drop-down at the top of the email view.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Is apparently not the correct answer to "I wonder why my plants are drooping?".
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It would be the correct answer if your pants are dropping 
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is the answer H2O (ie, lack thereof) ?
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Or H2O2. But perhaps not the lack thereof.
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Maybe they had their biology lessons backward.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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besides .. Gravity is a myth - the Earth sux !
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It's part of the answer, just not all of it 
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They're just trying to get attention.
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However I imagine you were definitely feeling the gravity of the situation!
Marc
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You failed in mentioning the number 42 anywhere in the answer.
Too bad...
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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Indeed.
The correct answer, as always, is: "Sorry, Dear".*
* If you want to add a "have you lost weight?" or a "Those shoes are really lovely", so much the better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What a question!
Gravity? Do you really expect anyone here to fall for that?
Well - maybe your Newton or perhaps even eleven who would.
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I may use it for the kids - from time-to-time at least - but can I control it?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: but can I control it?
If it comes with a remote, I can use one too!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Aw the little puss-a-puss.... so cute.
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Cool that you have saved it for prosperity on your blog, but I don't understand why you didn't fix the strange encoding of the apostrophe in "(assuming you don�t like the children" now that you actually took the time to reblog and hence had the chance???? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Because it wouldn't have been the original! I did consider it....
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Ah, I see! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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So I had an idea for delivery management system, and checked for parts for the prototype...Got a nice sum of about $1600...I may not write this article after all (or without the actual hardware part, and not as part of the challenge)...
A bit sad now...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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