On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:14:17AM -0500, A. Scott White wrote: > Ethan: > > to the original poster, reply & change subject != new message > > ... > > the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in > > MUAs such as mutt. please always create a new message and paste > > the list address in instead of using reply as a shortcut, or if > > you post often create an alias/address book entry for the list > > address. thank you. > > I always new I was being watched.
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> Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking threads
> existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind.
>
> Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a
> header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting.
most non-broken mailers include a reference header, i see you use MS
Worm+Virus Develop... er Outlook. i am quite impressed they actually
bothered to implement this feature correctly...
here is the appropriate header in your message:
-- In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
that is known as the message id, its essentially
<random_crap>@hostname in my case my fake hostname since im on a
masqeraded network but thats irrelevant the point is its a reasonably
unique string that identifies the message.
the other pet peeve of thread lovers is broken clients who don't
include that header in which case the thread gets broken...
> Well, you learn something new everyday (especially when you don't know
> much).
>
> Thanks.
np.
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Ethan Benson
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