From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 22:22:42 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 35C4E37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96E043E3B for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAF828C92; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:22:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:22:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Dan Nelson Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: changing subjects [in this manner] In-Reply-To: <20020924025056.GB55052@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: <20020924012121.U27705-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com 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 On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > It's up to your email client (not the mailinglist) to thread messages, > and the algorithm most use is to thread messages together based on > References: and In-Reply-To: headers, and optionally tack leftover > messages into those threads based on the subject header. References: > and IRT: are always honored, even if the subject is different. > > For example, if you're using Mutt, messages without References: or IRT: > (but with a matching subject) are placed by date within the thread and > marked with a *. If you're reading a list on the web threaded by > MHonArc, they are relegated to the bottom of the thread, below a > spacer. > > Simply replying to a message but changing the subject will not break a > thread. 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. > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com I meant the threads that are archived on the web, from the newsgroup side of this mailing list. PS - And that reminds me! Why am I still ssh'ing someplace and running pine when I could be running xpine and (probably) POP3s'ing my mail to my box!!! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message