For what it's worth, both the post I'm reply to and the one above it threaded correctly for me.
If it's possible for you to not break threading without too much effort on your side, I think it'll be a useful investment. But > I do my best. more than suffices for me. Thanks. Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:13:28 -0700: > 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. > > > [ ... ] > > >
