Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <404670AE.3060408@sbcglobal.net> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:56:30 -0600 From: Gregory Borota User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Following on old threads References: <40466228.4040307@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes You wrote on 3/3/2004 5:43 PM: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote: > > >>A bit OT but I don't know where else to quickly go. >> >>How can one follow on an old thread which one doesn't have in his/her >>mailbox? >> >>Thanks, >>Greg > > > Hmm, didn't you just ask about that? You locate the thread in the > archives, look at the "Raw text" of the message you'd like to reply to, > figure out its number (say, 89201), then send mail to cygwin dot com>. You should get a digest of one message (a message that > has another message as an attachment). Most mail clients will then allow > you to reply to the attached message. Or you can actually save the raw I did that. > text of the message (with some tweaking) and use any mbox-compliant mailer > to reply to it (see > for details). > Note that in lists archived on a monthly basis (such as this one), the > archives won't keep track of threads referencing messages from previous > months (e.g., if you replied now to some message from January, the list > archives won't show the "References" or "Follow-Ups" links for your > message). However, it's still recommended to reply to older threads > rather than start the discussion anew, as other threaded mail or news > readers may not have the above limitation. > Igor OK, I got it, the message I wanted to follow was more than 1 month old. Nice as usual. Thanks, Greg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/