Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/17

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Subject: [Leica] Responding to Archived Messages
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:17:56 -0500
References: <2131def6dd81da140a4d36d0c308eaaa.squirrel@mail.threshinc.com>

Thanks, Peter.  I think that adding the "Re:" may be the step that I missed.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Responding to Archived Messages


> Jim:  Actually, it did thread with your previous message, though not with
> the original.
>
> For reasons that I'd rather not get into, I don't get LUG email.  I use
> the Web interface.  When I want to respond to a message, I paste it into a
> text editor (in my case, TextPad, but any plain text editor will do.).  I
> have a simple macro that adds the quote marks to the beginning of each
> line.  Then I write my response above.  Then I past the entire reply, with
> quoted lines, into a new message.
>
> Then--and this may be the crucial thing--I past the original message's
> subject line into my subject line.  If it doesn't already have "Re:" at
> the beginning, I add that.
>
> This is a bit labor-intensive, which is probably why I don't reply as much
> as I ought to.  But it works, and it usually "threads" properly, though
> not always.
>
> --Peter
>
>
> Jim wrote:
>> Well, it works, but it won't "thread".
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
>
>
>
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