My question is specifically about what I should use in the subject line when replying, because I do not trust mail clients, or to myself as I use different clients sometimes. Hence, I wanted to learn a client free solution to correctly send replies. Now, the posting guide is not explicit about this. Hence my question. So what should I type in the subject line if I want to reply to a specific reply, and not to another reply, so that my reply is nested in the reply I want to reply. That I cannot figure out from the posting guide.
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 5, 2017, at 11:41 AM, Tunga Kantarcı <tungakanta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> OK I cannot figure this out clearly in the guidelines of posting. When >> I reply to a message I should out "Re:" in front of the subject line >> of the original post. So if the subject line of the original post it >> is "this is a post", then I should use "Re: this is a post" in the >> subject line, for my reply to appear under the original post, and not >> in the forum as a new message. >> >> But then I cannot figure out what subject line I should use to reply >> to a given reply. That is, suppose the original subject line is "this >> is a post" and there are replies under the post, and that I want to >> reply to one of the replies. How I specify in the subject line so that >> my reply appears under the reply of a certain person? Or do I have to >> use the reply features of gmail? >> >> Meanwhile, why the guidelines is implicit about this? > > Hi, > > There is an R Posting Guide here: > > https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html > > which is a good place to start. > > Generally, if you want to reply to a post and keep the thread intact, always > use "reply-all" and that will keep thread participants copied, the post sent > to all list subscribers, and the posts in the public archives for future use. > > Most e-mail clients (stand alone or web based) will add the "re:" prefix > automatically, if not already present. > > Threads are not kept intact in the list archives based upon the subject line > alone, even though some e-mail clients may do so. This is why there can be a > change in the subject line when using reply-all and the reply post will be > kept with the original thread. > > If, on the other hand, you create a new e-mail and just use "re: the original > subject line" in the subject, that will start a new thread in the archive. > > Don't use "reply" only to a post, unless specifically asked, as that will > only copy one person, not the list nor the archives, and the communication > will only be between you and that person, which is frowned upon. > > Regards, > > Marc > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
