Re: [cobalt-users] Posting to the list (Irrelevant Re:'s)

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, shimi wrote:

> I'm lost here... if you erase all the details of the message you're
> "replying" to, then how the archiver takes it as part of that thread?
> 
> or just pine (my mailer) don't do that?

No, most mailers, when you hit 'reply' , incluse the invisible part of the
headers in the email. The headers for a mailing list contain magic keys
that keep track of threads by being copied from message to message...

peek at the headers ...there are cute things like:

In-Reply-To: <>
  Which is a thread ID copied from the message ID of the original message

Some emailers even do it usenet style...

References: <NEBBLCAKKLGHFHFIMMPCAEGGDDAA.ajb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
   <>

etc....

Starting a brand new blank messages omits all this, so the list knows it's
a new thread. (Using a dumb email client omits them also, at which point
the mailing list software has to guess based on the subject)...

gsh