On 29-Mar-07 17:15:27, Marc Schwartz wrote: > [...] > Just a quick heads up here, that deleting the body text of > a message or changing the subject line, does not alter the > 'linkage' between posts. > > There are standards for how messages are 'threaded' and largely > have to do with the e-mail headers, not the e-mail content. > > A couple of quick references that might be helpful: > > http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/message-threading.html > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
This above, of course, is a good reason for not replying to an existing message when you want to start a completely new thread. However, I'm wondering what is the best way to start a new thread which legitimately branches out from an existing one. For example, someone posts a message which discusses at length a method of isotonic binary regression, and in the middle of this describes a curious approach to obtaining confidence bands for the regression. I'm intrigued by the confidence band issue, get some ideas about it, and want to start a new thread to develop just this aspect. However, to do so I want in the first place to include several quotations from the original message. This, of course, is most easily done by replying to that message -- so that it gets included in the reply -- and editing this included message, and changing the subject. But that stays in the old thread, which I don't want. Now of course one can copy over the old text into a brand new blank message, and edit it up into a simulacrum of a "reply" -- all the usual "On NN March 2007, XXX wrote:" ... as well as the "> " inclusion markers, etc.. But that could be tedious. Nevertheless, perhaps it is the right thing to do -- unless there's a work-round using the "reply" mechanism? Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 29-Mar-07 Time: 19:37:54 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
