Re: grouping by threads in the mailing list archive

[David Bateman]

Tino Scherrer wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a question about the octave mailing lists (and its' archives to be 
> more precise), not directly about octave.
> 
> I prefer to follow the emails to the mailing lists in the archives (for 
> example http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-May/thread.html) 
> rather than in an email program (which is a web interface in my case). The 
> advantage of the archives is that I can nicely group all emails by thread, 
> which makes it easier to follow.
> 
> Now I noticed that when I post a followup to any thread, a new thread begins 
> in the archive. Can someone explain, why this happens for me (and some other 
> list authors), while most other emails are sorted into the tree structure? 
> Does it depend on whether I reply to address@hidden or to the previous author 
> with Cc to the list? Does it depend on whether the subject is marked with a 
> Re: or not? Does it depend on some flags that should be set by the email 
> program? Should I rather not use an email program, but a newsreader or some 
> other interface instead?
> 
> Well, this is not an important topic, but an answer would help me to locate 
> my questions and related answers in the archives.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tino
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Use Nabble instead. See

http://www.nabble.com/Octave-f1895.html

for Octave and

http://www.nabble.com/GNU-Octave-Repository-f4192.html

for octave-forge

D.