From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 13:39:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10425 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:39:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA10419 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:39:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA23531; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:23:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703242123.OAA23531@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Cool Web page interface to mail + search engine? To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:23:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jfieber@indiana.edu, langfod@dihelix.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199703242105.NAA05854@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Mar 24, 97 01:05:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > so what you want is for freefall (our mail hub) to time-stamp > the messages? and indicate the originator? something like > X-sequencer: 199703242000Z jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Yes, or even "199703242000Z.jmb@freefall.freebsd.org" 8-). > > The major problem is that mailers which don't use the message ID > > of the message being replied to in the generation of an "In-Response-To:" > > or similar header. > > what software are you using to thread your messages, just curious ;) I'm not. I manually archive messages by topic (not subject) in elm, and then I don't need to thread them. But unless someone is willing to do this for all messages, not just the ones they find interesting, and share the results, this isn't really a good global strategy. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.