Re: Please use an indicative subject line

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> IRRC? If Robert Remembers Correctly?
Whoops! Lapsus digiti. Aut fortasse clavis. {"Slip of
the finger. Or perhaps of the key," to any lack-Latins
reading this; playing on the saying Lapsus linguae,
slip of the tongue.)
> Yes, threads are important. But you can
> change the Subject line at will and remain "in thread", because all that
> matters is that you specifically "Reply To" a preceding message. Every Emailer
> encodes the msg ID[s] of the message[s] to which it is "Replying", and these
> are sent as part of the reply's "header" (take a look sometime).
I suspected that. Is there any way one can re-create
that by brute force later? I sometimes copy a post to
my Xy log (one file for each month), delete the post
from my e-mail app, and then think of something I want
to say. I copy and paste the subject line and snippets
of the previous post into the reply, but I don't see
any way to get the Message ID (which I've been saving)
into the reply. Tbird doesn't seem to let you get at
that part of the message you're composing. I have
discovered that deleted messages are kept in the trash
bin, so lately I've been replying from there, and hope
that's keeping the thread alive.

> (I like order -- but I also like disorder.
Oh, so you're like...who was it? Emerson? With that tag
about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds?

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx