Am Sa., 6. Juni 2020 um 22:33 Uhr schrieb Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io>:

> > Good email software lets one change the subject in a reply, but retain
> > the in-reply-to header, whose value is a message ID.
>
> Presumably most email clients get this right nowadays since on the
> Scheme lists the threading always seems to be correct even when changing
> the subject. That's reassuring: if the information is there, it's just a
> matter of gradually improving user interfaces. Then even old threads
> from archives would be displayed according to individual preferences.

That's great. So maybe we can try to avoid a forest of threads by
making more use of the inherent tree-like structure (and by choosing
good subjects along the way).

Marc

PS1 Maybe you know how to do it: Sometimes I want to reply to a
message I can read on the list server but which I do not have
(anymore) stored as an email. Do you know a simple way to emulate a
reply-to?

PS2 Speaking of archives, but otherwise totally unrelated: It has
occurred to me that some recent discussions about SRFI drafts were
based on intermediate Github versions and not on published drafts.
This can make it hard to reconstruct the reasoning in the future. It's
like the difference between citing a published paper and refering to
some internet page.