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Threading in GNU Mailman mail lists?

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:56 am
by Ambush Commander
Call me dumb, but I just don't get mailing lists. To me, they're a kind of wanna-be forum, and I would prefer using a forum interface with email notification over having copious amounts of emails from threads that I don't have interest in.

However, I don't think that's going to change any time soon, so for now, I'd like to know how to correctly specify subject headers. It seems that I continually break the thread whenever I reply. For example:

[Wikitech-l] Subject

is the original message, so I've tried:

[Wikitech-l] Subject (same subject)
Re: [Wikitech-l] Subject (default mail-client behavior)

But alas, both of these break threading in the archives. I don't have a mailman installation lying around to test on, so it's difficult to try out other options. But nevermind that:

What's the proper way to specify the subject header on a mailing list?

Re: Threading in GNU Mailman mail lists?

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:23 am
by Roja
Ambush Commander wrote:It seems that I continually break the thread whenever I reply. ....
What's the proper way to specify the subject header on a mailing list?
What mail program are you using to view them?

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:25 am
by Ambush Commander
Mozilla Thunderbird.

I'm recieving digests, however, so I have to manually write a new message whenever I want to reply.

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:43 pm
by Ambush Commander
I've also tried a plain old

Re: Subject

Without the list name. Nothing seems to work... >.> Maybe it has to do with quoting?