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

[spaetz]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:33:39AM +0100, 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 replace the subject line 'digest blar blar blar' with the subject line cut
> from the message I am responding to

Different mail clients handle threading differently and some are more clever than others. The most reliable way is if a reply can refer to the mail id that is sent in the original mail header. This won't work for you as the digest throws away the original mail ids.
--> The most reliable way of threading is not available to you.

Some clients als analyse the subject line and if they see a "Re: subject" they sort it as a reply to thread "subject" (although they cannot know which mail in thread subject it is a reply to). This seems to not work in your mail client, but it might be that it works in other clients.


To cut a long story short, it's quite difficult from a digest to reconstruct the threading structure.

spaetz