[OSM-talk] How do you respond to talk posts so that that they fit correctly into the thread structure in talk archive?

[Lester Caine]

Peter Miller wrote:
> I have noticed for some time that my responses to threads of 
> conversations don’t appear properly in the thread structure in the 
> archive; mine always seem to be treated as a new conversation.
> 
> This is what I do.
> 
> I receive the ‘digests’ of recent conversations.
> 
> I notice a post that I want to respond to
> 
> I hit ‘reply’ (this keeps all the text and adds ‘>’ to the start of each 
> line)
> 
> I cut out all the text I don’t want
> 
> I add my new text
> 
> I replace the subject line ‘digest blar blar blar’ with the subject line 
> cut from the message I am responding to
> 
> I press send
> 
> So, what am I doing wrong?

Starting from the wrong message ;)
Each message has it's own ID, so if you do not reply to a message with the 
same ID then the treading is broken. Digests have their own id's so can't be 
linked to the different one's of the original messages.

-- 
Lester Caine - G8HFL
-----------------------------
Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact
L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk
EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/
Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk//
Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php