Re: no eth0 connection-redux

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:55:12 -0400 (EDT), Tom Furie wrote:
> 
> Thread wasn't broken here. The References: header in Robert's mail
> indicates that it was indeed a reply (to his original post on this
> thread).

Perhaps I need to explain what I mean by "broken thread".
The original post was in March.  This is April.  The Debian mailing
list archives don't allow a thread to span months.  Thus, a reply to
a message from a previous month has the same effect as starting a new
thread, as far as the Debian archives are concerned.  There were
April messages he could have replied to, such as this one:

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/msg00156.html

which would have preserved the April thread in one piece.  Yes, you can
click on the "In-Reply-To" link and see the message he is replying to.
But the "Previous by thread" link at the bottom of the page points to
a different thread, which means that the list considers this message to
be the start of a new thread, even though it has an "In-Reply-To" header.
See

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/

for reference purposes.

> 
> I see that you have an In-Reply-To: header, but no References: header. I
> also see that you are using Zimbra, perhaps Zimbra needs to be taught
> about References: headers.

That would be nice, actually.  The e-mail client I use does not allow me
to edit headers.  Fortunately, the "In-Reply-To" field is sufficient for
the mailing list archives to properly connect the new post to the thread.

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