[Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?

[David Woolley]

Actually, he isn't using an email program at all.  He seems to be 
reading it on a third party web archive.  Such archives are either 
intended to be read-only (after all, they are only there to attract you 
to the advertising), or there will be a method of replying specific to 
the archive.  They are not the reflector, but something that captures 
the output of the reflector.

Replying properly to anything on such an archive, using an email program 
is actually technically rather difficult, as most modern email programs 
do not allow you to manually set the In-Reply-To header, which is needed 
for the threading, shown in the image, to work properly.  The screen 
shot also doesn't show the Message-ID header, whose value you would have 
to copy into the In-Reply-To header.  The only hope would be if the 
archive itself provides an email reply option, where they actually 
originate the email, which is what I believe another third party 
archive, Nabble, does.  You would have to ask the people running the 
current archive whether they provide that service.

Another reply also seems to be confusing an archive with the actual 
reflector.  The reflector is just a bit of software that re-broadcasts 
the email to everyone on the list.

Incidentally, JPG is not a good format for most screen shots.  PNG is a 
much better choice.

-- 
David Woolley
Registered owner of K2 06123

iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
> 
> Typically you would just use the "Reply" button in your email client
> when viewing the message, and the necessary headers would be included
> to link to the existing thread .... but it looks like you are using
> Microsoft Outlook, so logic may not prevail ;)


> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart <ad at broadweave.net> wrote:
>> I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can
>> I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread?
>>
>>
>>
>> I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the
>> threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see
>> here:
>> <http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/reflector_zps2430ecf0.jpg>
>>


-- 
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.