From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7746 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2016 00:39:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7042 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2016 00:39:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=moss, Moss, eliot, Eliot X-HELO: nm2-vm5.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: from nm2-vm5.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (HELO nm2-vm5.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com) (216.109.114.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:39:41 +0000 Received: from [66.196.81.163] by nm2.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Aug 2016 00:39:40 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.244] by tm9.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Aug 2016 00:39:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Aug 2016 00:39:39 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: uQK22MWswBCKBpZEmcLDxzBiNtxH7V0FvTGeZikrZyTgdEnV Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:14:00 -0000 From: Jack Subject: Re: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: In-Reply-To: (from moss@cs.umass.edu on Thu Aug 11 19:37:56 2016) Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00204.txt.bz2 On 2016.08.11 19:37, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 8/11/2016 7:28 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: >> I tried to reply to the person who replied to my original post. I=20=20 >> did this by sending an email to >> this mailing list, with "RE: " as the new=20=20 >> subject line. The mailing list >> took this to be a reply to my original post, rather than a reply to=20=20 >> the person who replied to my >> original post. Should I have used "RE: RE: > instead? >=20 > No -- you should look at the addressees in the mail and responder > only to the sender, not the list, if that's what you want ... >=20 > But you ASKED a different question: how to add a (presumably new) > thread to the LIST. I believe you simply need to send a new message > or change the subject more, and not use RE: ... Eliot Moss Also note that most email threading happens using headers which are=20=20 rarely seen by humans (using the internal message id's) so if you reply=20= =20 to a list message, even if you change the subject completely, many=20=20 email programs will still indent it under the message you replied to.=20=20= =20 Whether those headers are set correctly depends on your email software=20=20 (although most seem to do the right thing.) Also note that it is not the mailing list which determines threading.=20=20= =20 It's all done at display time by the software reading the messages,=20=20 whether that's your local email software (thunderbird, kmail, ...) or=20=20 some web email interface. Jack -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple