On Tue Nov 20 14:10:30 EST 2007, I wrote: > I post occasionally to the mplayer forum ... > I prefer to use sendmail. When I post a reply (here for example), I preserve > threading as follows. I construct the message with mailto, manually add the > References, and send it off with sendmail. > > With the mplayer forum, there's a problem. If I wait for the digest that > arrives by e-mail, I can see the Message-ID of the last post and add it under > References to preserve threading. However, I see no way to find the > Message-ID at the online archive. So I can either wait a long time, or I can > screw up the threading.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:43:39 +0100, Sven Joachim replied: > I don't know what everybody else does, but I prefer to read large > mailing lists in a newsreader. Gmane (http://gmane.org) is a > mail-to-news gateway that hosts 10,000 public mailing lists, and > mplayer-users is in the group gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user. You can > also post your own articles via Gmane, if your newsreader cannot send > mail for some reason. And, very important: Gmane preserves the original > Message-Ids and References. Thanks for a good suggestion. I found the forum but was unable to find any way to display the Message-IDs. Perhaps this is withheld as a way to prevent harvesting of e-mail addresses. I was able to find a way to reply to a post. I tried that and it worked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
