[Coco] breaking mail threads [WAS: Re: What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?]

[Tormod Volden]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Nick wrote:
>
>> Nick, you are consistently breaking the mail threads in all your
> replies. Do you not use the Reply button? I see that you are using
> Thunderbird, so there should normally not be any problem.
>
> Your mail headers have no In-Reply-To or References fields.
>
> I access the list via the web, not e-mail. But I post messages to the
> list using e-mail (Thunderbird).
>
> I can't do a reply from the web browser version of the list and I
> certainly don't want the hundreds of postings each month from the list
> sent to my mailbox.

Full understanding for this :) I created a separate gmail account for
mailing lists. And I have the CoCo mails going straight into their own
folder (label), using filters. You can also add a gmail account to
your Thunderbird setup via POP or IMAP, and choose to only download
headers, for instance.

>
> I like the web because it lists the headers and I choose what I want
> to read (or have time to read).

Er, most e-mail programs don't exactly force you to read all mails either.

>
> Is there a better way?

As the other Tor* already have said, Gmane is the deal, +1.

>
> The messages I post seem to appear ok on the web list.

No, they don't. At least not here:
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2013-October/thread.html
You can see all of your posts start a new thread. It makes a big
difference for those of us who use a threaded view e-mail client
(which is a life saver for following a list with hundreds of postings
per month!). Now I have dozens of "hardware scrolling" threads where I
ideally should have only one.

Tormod