okay, one last post.
gmail categorizes email by threads
gmail's behaviour is different than this R-archive:
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-June
in fact, gmail has categorized the posts as i had intended
but then gmail, i think, calls them conversations, not threads
now i
this is fifth and final (?) reply to the initial post
if this post gets added to the original thread,
then i've found no way to initiate a new thread by
clicking the reply button
had no idea that this behaviour occurred. wonder
how many archives (other email lists) are "corrupted"
because of