On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 20:38 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > I also want to ask a question I haven't seen yet in this thread. > Suppose I happen on a new fact that sends *me* off on a tangent -- > something I've long meant to ask about, but not really relevant to the > thread. (Here, for instance,it might be "Things the Uninitiated Need to > Know and Never Get Told.") > > To do it, I naturally ought to start a new thread -- but also > give the passage about the "*In* Reply-to" header, with credit to P O'C > and what would be a bibliographic footnote if we were doing this in old- > fashioned paper journals. Common sense would dictate that it's either a reply, or it's not. If it's in reply to the prior message, than write it as a reply. If it's not in "reply," even if it's something that's been inspired by another message, then it's a *new* message. If you need to refer to something from another message, then there's several ways of doing so: * Simply quote the part of the message concerned. * Write something like, "See Fred's message on Tuesday re threading" into your message. That allows people to find it. * Find the URI for the message on the Fedora archive, and include that in your message. * Write the message ID for it into your message. Though, it's a long time since I've come across a client that could find a message for you from a quoted message ID (it'd find it in your local cache of messages, after left- or right-clicking on the ID). I think it was a usenet client on the Amiga, or perhaps Forte Inc's Agent, that could do that. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
