Sorry for the late reply. From: David Wright Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:40:04 -0500 > You read postings on the web with a browser. When you want to reply, > you open a composition window and paste in the To/Cc/Subject headers > from the web page.
Correct. > But the point is that Message-ID:s, In-Reply-To:s and References: > in *emails* are not URLs, but <strings>, even though their text > is used to mark links on the web page. OK, thanks. For the In-Reply-To above I omitted the link string. Hopefully I got the right message. > Bingo. Then it looks as if all my guesses in > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg01343.html > were basically correct. Yes. My worst error, which spoiled the References, was to omit < and >. > > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon#Getting_Started and references > > there. > > I looked at that page some while back. Without seeing it in action, > I think I'd have difficulty in recommending any software suitable > for it ... It's self contained. The entire MUA in one module. Nothing to add; just install and use. > If you're typing (or pasting) the references, ... One mouse action does copy and paste. > I would just add > the In-Reply-To instead. That way, you can Cut/Copy the original's > > Message-ID: <bla bla bla> > > Paste the line untouched, then edit *just* these characters: > > Message-ID: change into In-Reply-To: > > which will make your message thread correctly. OK. Will see the result with In-Reply-To only for this message. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca
