From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 20:13:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B153937B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A9143E75 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8O3Dm1n006640 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:13:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17tg8y-000348-00 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:13:48 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing subjects [in this manner] References: <20020923222424.B20965-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020924025056.GB55052@dan.emsphone.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 23 Sep 2002 22:13:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020924025056.GB55052@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: <871y7km64z.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-09-24T02:50:56Z, Dan Nelson writes: > The safest way to create a new thread based on an existing thread is to > manually copy your "parent" message into a textfile or X clipboard, start > a fresh new message, pase the parent in, trim, and add "> " yourself (or > have your editor do it if it has a "paste as quotation" function. Or, if you use Gnus, write your message as you would normally, then go to the top of the message buffer and delete the References: line. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message