[mythtv-users] Re: How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 11 March 2005 10:45, Andrew Close wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:40:38 -0800, Mathew Mrosko 
<mythtv at matmrosko.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 11 March 2005 02:43 am, Mark Crutch wrote:
> 
> 
> > > 1) Subscribe to the list
> > > 2) Set your preferences so that it doesn't deliver any mails to 
> > > you. 
> > > 3) When you find a message you want to reply to in the web 
> > > archives, 
> > > copy the message subject
> > > 4) Start a new email to mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > > 5) Paste in the subject line; I prefix it with "Re: ", but I'm not 
> > > sure 
> > > if that's essential
> > > 6) Copy any text you want to quote from the web archive
> > > 7) Right click in the message in TB and select "Paste As 
> > > Quotation" 
> > > 8) Fill out the rest of your reply
> > > 9) Send.
> > >
> > > This seems to keep things threaded within the web archives, so I 
> > > presume 
> > > it also keeps it together with the rest of the thread for those 
> > > people 
> > > who are receiving the list as emails.

Nope.  That will definitely not work.  Threading is controlled by 
information in the message header that is not preserved in the messages 
as *displayed* in either the pipermail web archives or the gossamer 
archives (though as pointed out elsewhere, it is preserved if you 
download an entire month's archive as an mbox-format file and import it 
into your mail client).

> > 
> > If that's what you did this time, it didn't work...This e-mail you 
> > sent did 
> > not show up threaded with the rest in my email client (KMail).
> 
> interesting.  it did thread within GMail...

Some mail clients can try to be a little smarter and thread based on the 
subject line as well as the message headers.  KMail has the ability to 
do this, but it doesn't work 100% of the time.

-JAC