Let's quote my original message properly here:
On 2009-06-10 15:24 (UTC), Teemu Likonen wrote: > Is it possible to reply to a message with quoting the content but > without actually having In-Reply-To nor References header in the new > message? Sometimes it's useful to quote someone's message but start a > completely new thread (i.e., no In-Reply-To/References headers). On 2009-06-22 11:28 (-0400), John A Pershing Jr wrote: > Ummm... Why would you want to do this in the first place? To make it > hard for other people to follow the thread? > > Those header fields are there for a (very good) reason! I'm not criticizing the purpose of those headers nor making it deliberately hard to follow discussions. The point of my question is that sometimes a message has some minor side notes which don't belong to the context of the thread at all. A person may raise completely new discussion from such side note, and if it's completely off-topic it may actually be easier for everyone if the discussion is split (perhaps quoting a little). Sometimes changing the "Subject" header is better choice, sometimes maybe not. It's very rare that I do this and I can't remember when was the last time. But it would be nice to know how to do this with Gnus anyway. Not a big thing, though. It's always easy to start a new thread and perhaps write a note like "<Person> made an interesting side note in <thread> and I'd like to discuss..." _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
