There is no conclusively client-free solution, which is why it is not in the Posting Guide.
However, as a general rule, start with a fresh email to start a thread, and reply-to-all to the message you want to reply to. The threading is managed by hidden message ids, not subjects. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On April 5, 2017 11:26:27 AM PDT, "Tunga Kantarcı" <tungakanta...@gmail.com> wrote: >My question is specifically about what I should use in the subject >line when replying, because I do not trust mail clients, or to myself >as I use different clients sometimes. Hence, I wanted to learn a >client free solution to correctly send replies. Now, the posting guide >is not explicit about this. Hence my question. So what should I type >in the subject line if I want to reply to a specific reply, and not to >another reply, so that my reply is nested in the reply I want to >reply. That I cannot figure out from the posting guide. > >On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> >wrote: >> >>> On Apr 5, 2017, at 11:41 AM, Tunga Kantarcı ><tungakanta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> OK I cannot figure this out clearly in the guidelines of posting. >When >>> I reply to a message I should out "Re:" in front of the subject line >>> of the original post. So if the subject line of the original post it >>> is "this is a post", then I should use "Re: this is a post" in the >>> subject line, for my reply to appear under the original post, and >not >>> in the forum as a new message. >>> >>> But then I cannot figure out what subject line I should use to reply >>> to a given reply. That is, suppose the original subject line is >"this >>> is a post" and there are replies under the post, and that I want to >>> reply to one of the replies. How I specify in the subject line so >that >>> my reply appears under the reply of a certain person? Or do I have >to >>> use the reply features of gmail? >>> >>> Meanwhile, why the guidelines is implicit about this? >> >> Hi, >> >> There is an R Posting Guide here: >> >> https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >> which is a good place to start. >> >> Generally, if you want to reply to a post and keep the thread intact, >always use "reply-all" and that will keep thread participants copied, >the post sent to all list subscribers, and the posts in the public >archives for future use. >> >> Most e-mail clients (stand alone or web based) will add the "re:" >prefix automatically, if not already present. >> >> Threads are not kept intact in the list archives based upon the >subject line alone, even though some e-mail clients may do so. This is >why there can be a change in the subject line when using reply-all and >the reply post will be kept with the original thread. >> >> If, on the other hand, you create a new e-mail and just use "re: the >original subject line" in the subject, that will start a new thread in >the archive. >> >> Don't use "reply" only to a post, unless specifically asked, as that >will only copy one person, not the list nor the archives, and the >communication will only be between you and that person, which is >frowned upon. >> >> Regards, >> >> Marc >> > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
