Another possibility is that if I am directly in a CC: from a post, I might 
incorrectly respond to that copy rather than the one from the list.  I usually 
delete the one that I know was from the CC: (it usually arrives first) so that 
I don't make that mistake.

[For this note, I am replying to it exactly as received.  However, I am setting 
the From properly (my mail arrives via a forwarding address) and I am removing 
my own e-mail from the "To:" that the "Replay All" included automatically.]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 09:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, 
moderators and volunteers

Daniel,

I don't generally have any way of knowing what does and does not influence 
threading.  I don't have threading in my mail client and I don't use an 
alternative, such as a newsgroup service, so it is difficult to know how I do 
or don't do disturbs threading.

I am told that touching the subject will break threading, so I don't do that as 
much as I would like to when we have drifted considerably from some 
non-specific subject, like this one has.  I can't even add or restore a 
category without objection.

I also don't normally see the SMTP headers, although I can find them with 
moderate effort.  I can't influence the outgoing headers though.

What may have happened is I replied to my own copy rather than the one from the 
list.  I usually delete my own copy as soon as one from the list appears, and 
that might matter.

There are a couple of other things I should watch out for as well.  I think if 
I re-open a post in my Outbox to correct something, that might lose the reply 
thread too.  Also, if I had to save a draft for continuing later, that might 
lose the reply thread.  I don't know.

Generally, it is very difficult to honor an etiquette the effects of which are 
invisible to me.  For me, the list arrives chronologically in a separate folder 
that I filter it to and that is all that I know about it.

I do my best.  

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 05:33
To: [email protected]
Subject: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators 
and volunteers

Dennis, some of your recent replies (including the one I'm replying to)
break threading (at least in Mutt), could you look into that please?

(The mails appear in the same thread, as a new reply to the first post
of the thread.)

Thanks.

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