Barbara Duprey wrote:
Following a clue in the message received on subscription, I found a
command that says it retrieves the posts of a thread. I gave it the
message number of my own first post to the list, 135977, to see what
would happen.
The syntax in the subscription message was wrong. The first attempt at
sending a message to [email protected] failed, saying
that the mailer daemon couldn't find
[email protected] (no idea where that "m" came from,
it was certainly not in what I typed -- I tried again, same result).
It asked if I actually meant
[email protected], So I tried that. Again,
failure, this time with another httpd- prepended. Sigh.
The syntax [email protected] (with a dot before the
message number) works for me. The syntax
[email protected] (with a hyphen before the message
number) *also* worked. I'm running Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 on Vista Home
Premium.
So I tried sending the message to [email protected].
This time I thought I was onto something, I got a Digest message back
that included posts from this list, including one numbered 135977:
users Digest of: thread-135977
Re: click in Menu bar causes blue screen in Windows xp sp2
135969 by: sjm netx
135977 by: Harold Fuchs
135981 by: Kirill S. Palagin
137121 by: Edward.M.Gillie.pmusa.com
137141 by: sjm netx
137194 by: Kirill S. Palagin
But that number was associated with a response in a thread about a
totally different subject! It gave me that whole thread (Thunderbird
showed a set of icons labeled users_xxxxxx.ezm, and also showed the
contents in-line), but it wasn't the one I wanted.
Next question -- had I gotten the number wrong? So I tried the archive
link again to see if it was my message:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=135977
Sure enough, that's my own message. Somehow, the two message numbers
are different, and quite separate in time; my message was on Dec. 7,
2006, and the digest has that number associated with one from Nov. 2
of that year (more than a month earlier). So it appears that there is
*some* number that would get the digest of a given thread, but how to
determine it?
Where did you get the 135977 from?
I opened a recent message from the list and looked at the Return-Path
header, which I remembered had another "magic number" in it. I tried
that number in the users-thread command -- and VOILA!
users Digest of: thread-203472
Re: Issues with Unsubscribed Users
203463 by: Harold Fuchs
203472 by: John Kaufmann
The number I actually used was 203472, and the top of the thread was
Harold's message. This was the thread I was hoping to get.
<snip>
Fantastic piece of research! Now we need to automate it.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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