From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 20:32:35 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 283C137B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC8E43E65 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g8O3WXHU060767; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:32:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:32:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing subjects [in this manner] Message-ID: <20020924033233.GC55052@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020923222424.B20965-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020924025056.GB55052@dan.emsphone.com> <871y7km64z.fsf@pooh.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871y7km64z.fsf@pooh.int> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Sep 23), Kirk Strauser said: > > 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. I'm always wary of suggesting that users edit headers. :) You also never know how smart their mailer is. I assume Gnus removes In-Reply-To: if it notices the user has removed References:, and Mutt only makes In-Reply-To: visible to the user, and if it is deleted, it will not generate References: . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message