On 06Oct2009 08:42, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx <gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 08:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: | >> However, it seems to me that the "problem" is...there may be a thread | >> started by one person (not you) and you reply to one post within that | >> thread and wish only to see messages related to your post within the | >> thread. If that is it, then no there is no concept of "sub-treading". | >> | >> Frankly, there is simple solution to the "problem". | > | > I've seen clients that could do that sort of thing fairly easily | > (probable Forte Inc's Agent, or it might have been Thule's Thor), | | I'm not so sure any more. You know how much influence Ed has on me :), so | I check the headers and the References field is in the form of | | 08nmii94i230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx What, no <> bracketing? | There is no mention of who the poster is. So, the newsreader would have to | check every message to see who posted it. Lots of work! Um, if you're after replies to your own messages it is only necessary to note the message-ids of your own messages and look for them in the References: header. It probably does assume you post with the same mail/newsreader you read with to make tracking your posts easy. | I also saw that the References field is not always present. So maybe | Cameron Simpson could explain us how "A quick '/~P~Q'" manages to do the | trick. I take the position that if the References field is not present in a usenet article, it is not a followup. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are CORRECT, mine, and not PSLs or NMSUs.. - Larry Cunningham <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
