On 22 June 2016 at 09:48, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 2016-06-22, at 00:50, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > > > An interesting idea might be to sign up for the web interface at > > listserv.uga.edu and use that to respond to the individual post, > instead of > > trying to reply to the digest mail. Even when you modify the subject, > your > > response would not thread into the discussion for next day's digest, nor > > > Are messages are threaded by Subject or by In-Reply-to? I think > I've observed both behaviors. > There's RFC 4021 that describes Message-ID: and References: headers and how they can be used to define the thread. This can be a challenge for the mail agent to reconstruct a context from the various threads that were forked. Most mail agents use that approach. Google Mail originally was supposed tho thread messages by content. I am not sure how much of that still happens, but I find gmail very effective for following mailing lists. It's very effective to skip or mute the remainder of a thread. And I really like it that the entire thread comes back into your inbasket when a new message arrives, so you can still review the material and don't need every post to include the full chain of the conversation. And you do have a fair amount of control over the layout of your response, so you can chop off all but the paragraph you respond to. But there may be good reasons you don't want to use gmail for your correspondence, even when mailing lists present less privacy issues. Rob
