On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:04:39AM -0500, Jay Francis wrote:
> I am emailing
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [sic] to post my original
> message but don't see how to reply to posts.  Sure I
> get post a reply but how does the reply get threaded
> correctly.

This forum is powered (weakly) by commercial server software named
Lyris.  This server munges Message-IDs in one way on its NNTP interface,
and munges them in a different way when it resends mail, and does it
differently for every person subscribed via email.

Thus it is impossible for you to cause your reply to be threaded
correctly with this software.  So you shouldn't worry about it too much.
Just reply, and everyone will get crappy Subject-based pseudo-threading.
(If you don't know the difference between this and real threading, see
http://homepages.enterprise.net/jmarshall/threads.html .)

(People using the NNTP server can get proper threading for messages from
others posting via NNTP.  People subscribed via email can use procmail
tricks to get proper threading for messages from others posting via
email -- but note that this gets screwed up by people like Matt "TiBook"
Disher who tend to ask new questions by *replying* to an existing
palm-dev-forum message instead of just emailing to palm-dev-forum@ (this
adds a totally new topic to an existing thread instead of starting a new
thread, and is quite annoying).  Getting both at once is a larger
undertaking that I suspect will involve effectively duplicating a
server.)

    John

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