Hi Raul,

Now I’ve worked out how to reply I find that Ian has solved the problem so I 
want need to reply further and will probably sink back into J obscurity as a 
perpetual lurker!

There are a lot of clever and helpful people on this forum!


Richard Donovan

> On 16 Feb 2022, at 05:30, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 7:53 PM Richard Donovan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> It seems that to reply to a post you need the original email to reply to. 
>> I’m sure that can’t be true as you’d have to keep every email in the event 
>> that you may desire to reply to one!
> 
> Ah... I guess to some degree that depends on your email client.
> 
> Some email clients thread by date and subject line. Others thread by
> the "Message-Id" (and/or "References") in the headers. If you are
> replying to the original, the subject line is simple to fix. If you
> are replying to a digest, getting the message id right might be a bit
> of a stretch. Ideally you would respond with all of those handled
> properly by your email client, but in my previous message, I was only
> thinking about subject line threading.
> 
> That said, it's not that difficult to save copies of all received
> emails (er... if you are getting them...). The disk space required
> isn't much on today's hardware.
> 
> Anyways... good luck!
> 
> -- 
> Raul
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