[R] Replying to Posts Within Same Thread

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/12/2009 9:48 PM, Charlotte Maia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I reply to a post, it generally appears as a separate thread,
> rather than branching off the original post.
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Individual messages have a "Message-ID" header; for example, your 
message has this one:

Message-ID: <b7bfe54e0912011848n130c22a6g8d7da8c4ca505d2c at mail.gmail.com>

Your mail client (or the archive one) performs threading based on clues 
in the header, including ones like

References: <4B159316020000CB00056E06 at medicine.umaryland.edu>
	<4B159317020000CB00056E09 at medicine.umaryland.edu>
	<4B159317020000CB00056E09 at medicine.umaryland.edu>

and

In-Reply-To: <4B159317020000CB00056E09 at medicine.umaryland.edu>

(from a different message).  Your problem is that because you are using 
the digest, you aren't inserting those headers (or perhaps yours refer 
to the digest, not the individual message), so the clients don't realize 
your messages are replies.

There may be ways to trigger the threading without knowing the message 
ID, because sometimes message IDs in References are not right.  For 
example, the References list that I posted was from John Sorkin's reply 
to you, which my client correctly threaded even though it refers to a 
different message ID than yours (presumably something local to his system).

Duncan Murdoch


> 
> Noting I am currently receiving a couple of the lists in digest form.
> 
> 
> kind regards