Linking to a forum thread from a (news) website.
I have been struggling to get this right and I think I have finally done it.
I have a website with many opinion and news articles. I have linked from the article to a pre-written thread, such as from here:
EXAMPLE WEBSITE ARTICLE https://www.tokyoprogressive.org/remembering-the-tsushima-maru-disaster-75-y... to EXAMPLE THREAD ON LIST Title: Remembering the Tsushima Maru Disaster 75 Years Later https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
PROBLEM The problem is that this does not show the subsequent comment that was added. And SHOW REPLIES BY DATE does not do it either.
SOLUTION I figured out that all replies are listed under Re:, so if the first comment does not have the Re:, then it gets cut off. So if I click https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress... you will see all the subsequent posts. Since I want to post a link BEFORE anyone starts replying, I have to make my first post in the thread titled Re:
EXAMPLE OF NEW POSTING STYLE Make sure the thread has a Re: in it. (Actually I made a mistake and wrote Re; and it still worked.) https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
Or:
https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
QUESTION Am I correct that if I want to create a thread and link to it, but make sure the first note is included, I need to make the thread title: Re: Something?
Hmmm. That problem in the first message does not seem to be true now. I created a new thread without "Re" and replied and both show up here:
From Shingetsu News Agency https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
So why did I have a problem initially with Hmmm. That problem in the first message does not seem to be true now. I created a new thread without "Re" and replied and both show up here:
From Shingetsu News Agency https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
So why did I have a problem initially with Hmmm. That problem in the first message does not seem to be true now. I created a new thread without "Re" and replied and both show up here:
From Shingetsu News Agency https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
So why did I have a problem initially with https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
not showing the replies as in this link? https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/hyperkitty/list/discuss@list.tokyoprogress...
On 9/25/19 2:29 AM, Paul Arenson wrote:
SOLUTION I figured out that all replies are listed under Re:, so if the first comment does not have the Re:, then it gets cut off. ... QUESTION Am I correct that if I want to create a thread and link to it, but make sure the first note is included, I need to make the thread title: Re: Something?
Re: has nothing to do with it.
Replies are not threaded by subject. Replies are threaded by In-Reply-To: and References: headers in the reply. These headers are generated by the sending MUA (mail client) when replying to a message. If you send a 'new' message without those headers, it will be a new thread regardless of whether or not the Subject: matches with or without the Re:.
Also, there are broken MUAs that don't properly generate In-Reply-To: and References: headers and replies from these MUAs will never be properly threaded.
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