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

[Gregory]

I use my Gmail account purely for OSM mailing list.
A bit silly I know, but has it's advantages such as I can avoid logging in
if I'm too busy to read all the subject lines.

So if you want to e-mail me directly, go for info at livingwithdragons.com and
I'll read it sooner(and more likely to read it at all).

-- 
Gregory
nomoregrapes at gmail.com
http://www.livingwithdragons.com

2008/8/29 spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de>

> 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
>
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