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

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 1:04, Sammo wrote:
> Sorry for this rather dumb question, but how do I reply to messages in 
> mythtv-users Archives?
> 
> If I click on View by: [Thread] (e.g. for March 2005), then click on a 
> subject heading, I can read the message. Then, if I click on the 
> sender's name, the link points to 
> 
mailto:mythtv-users%40mythtv.org?Subject=%5Bmythtv-users%5D%20Sound%20woes&In-Reply-To=1109031788.3044.14.camel%40lathe.slh.lan
> 
> This opens up a Compose message window in Thunderbird, and the subject 
> field is filled in automatically. I can also copy and "Paste as 
> quotation" the message I am replying to.
> 
> But the problem is that after I send my reply, it is not shown as a 
> reply to the original in mythtv-users Archives! I guess it is 
> something  
> about the In-Reply-To field, so how do I get Thunderbird to use it?

You can't.  If you want to be able to reply to messages on the list and 
have the replies get correctly threaded, you need to subscribe to the 
list in 'individual emails' mode** and reply to the messages from your 
email client, not your web browser.  The archives do not retain the 
message-id information, so there's no way for your mail client to 
construct a proper In-Reply-To field.

-JAC

**Some mail clients have the ability to reply to individual messages 
contained in a MIME digest if you subscribe in 'MIME digest' mode.