Re: where is the Message-ID?
Hello Steve,
On 2007-11-20 20:10 +0100, Steve Kleene wrote:
> I post occasionally to the mplayer forum, which is archived at:
>
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/
>
> All posts there are done by e-mail. When I (or a responder) posts, it shows
> up there pretty fast. Much later, I get a digest of the last few posts by
> e-mail.
>
> I prefer to use sendmail. When I post a reply (here for example), I preserve
> threading as follows. I construct the message with mailto, manually add the
> References, and send it off with sendmail.
Isn't that a bit cumbersome? Consider switching your subscription to
non-digest mode.
> With the mplayer forum, there's a problem. If I wait for the digest that
> arrives by e-mail, I can see the Message-ID of the last post and add it under
> References to preserve threading. However, I see no way to find the
> Message-ID at the online archive. So I can either wait a long time, or I can
> screw up the threading.
>
> Clearly other posters there have figured this out. How do they (or their
> mail programs) get a hold of the Message-IDs? (I would ask them, but they're
> not thrilled with posts that aren't directly about mplayer.)
I don't know what everybody else does, but I prefer to read large
mailing lists in a newsreader. Gmane (http://gmane.org) is a
mail-to-news gateway that hosts 10,000 public mailing lists, and
mplayer-users is in the group gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user. You can
also post your own articles via Gmane, if your newsreader cannot send
mail for some reason. And, very important: Gmane preserves the original
Message-Ids and References.
Cheers,
Sven
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