On Sun 28 Jul 2019 at 09:17:21 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Appears that the less-than and greater-than signs were replaced with > the null character. I'm not sure why but will try to prevent henceforth. > > The In-reply-to and References above should be right except that there > is no magnifying glass link. This is email. Not HTML.
Yes, that's looking good, thanks. The following scenario, where I write "you do this&that", is all guesswork because it's not easy to divine exactly what you do when you reply to a post. You read postings on the web with a browser. When you want to reply, you open a composition window and paste in the To/Cc/Subject headers from the web page.¹ I can't determine what happens when you cut and paste the Message-ID ± References lines but I suspect the exotic characters may be causing odd effects as you delete them. In particular, you may find some terminals/editors miscalculate the position of the cursor, displaying it on a neighbouring character.² (This may be why you could think you deleted the NUL/magnifier, leaving the <, but actually delete the <, leaving the NUL.) You've mentioned "magnifying glass link" before, and I get the impression that you think the magnifying glass *is* the link. Actually it's just a symbol character enclosed in [], and needn't appear on the page at all (because the [] characters are just as good for clicking on). The link itself is a URL as usual. For the message I'm replying to now, the Message-ID is <E1hrlrN-0002IM-Cf@joule.invalid> and the corresponding link³ on the web page (under the magnifier) is https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/E1hrlrN-0002IM-Cf@joule.invalid But the point is that Message-ID:s, In-Reply-To:s and References: in *emails* are not URLs, but <strings>, even though their text is used to mark links on the web page. Apologies if these guesses are off the mark. ¹ I had assumed you'd be cut-and-pasting from an email header, not the web page. ² Eg, emacs -nw in an xterm does this. ³ I must admit that I've never discovered a use for that style of link: the https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg01334.html URL seems much more useful for citations in posts. Cheers, David.