[R] Replying to Posts Within Same Thread

[James W. MacDonald]

Whether or not your reply is threaded can also be due to the client you 
use (if you use an email client). For instance, this reply will be 
threaded correctly because I used Thunderbird. However, had I used my 
university-approved Groupwise client it would appear as a new thread.

Best,

Jim



David Winsemius wrote:
> 
> On Dec 1, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Charlotte Maia wrote:
> 
>> On 12/2/09, John Sorkin <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>>> I don't know what you are doing wrong because I don't know exactly 
>>> what you are doing. I do know that I don't have your problem when I 
>>> simply reply to a message without touching the subject line.
>>> John
>>
>> Could you clarify the notion of "simply reply".
>> There is no obvious reply links in either the archive page, or the 
>> digest.
> 
> True. The archive does not expose the message headers. I have not 
> figured out whether is is even possible to respond to a message on the 
> Archive. Some people use Gmane or Nabble, but I think most use a 
> mail-client. Responding to the digest can break threads.
> 
>>
>> In the case, where someone sends me an email, such have you have done,
>> I can simply reply.
>>
>> However, in general this option is not available.
> 
> I am wondering why it wouldn't be? This particular message is threaded 
> with the posting you made a little over an hour ago, whereas some of 
> your replies in the last few days have been orphaned from the posting 
> you responded to (as you have noticed). You can look at the threaded 
> archive here (as I suspect you already know):
> 
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/
> 
> Best

-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Douglas Lab
University of Michigan
Department of Human Genetics
5912 Buhl
1241 E. Catherine St.
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