On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:18:49PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: > That would depend on the nature of the mailing list, presumably (how quick a > typical conversation turnaround is). On the order of weeks should work, > though, otherwise you get interesting quirks of the type seen on > groups.google.com, where you occasionally get threads starting in 1996, > lasting for sixteen messages, then picking up again in 2001 (or whatever) -- > "thread by subject" by-products.
But only if there are no references headers? I sometimes reply to things after 6 months, and try to have the right "in reply to". Although I'm just awkward, and I don't think the online list archives usually pick up on what I'm up to. :-( Nicholas Clark
