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Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user



On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM, PETER EASTHOPE <peasthope@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Folk,
>
>  Once or twice the list server has connected
>  the thread after I've copied the subject line
>  verbatim.  Usually the thread gets broken and
>  complaints follow.  Does anyone see why this
>  happens? ... With the server, not the humans.
>
>  Is there a way to ensure that the thread is maintained,
>  given that I compose the reply in a Web based MUA?
>

Because threading is done by message id (see headers) and not actually
replying to the thread loses the continuity of the message/reference
ids.  Basically, if you don't reply you're starting a new thread.

-- 
Vikki Roemer

Registered Linux user #280021

"Sometimes the lights all shinin' on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip its been."
 -- Grateful Dead, "Truckin'"


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