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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:06:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:43:19PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote:
> >
> >> A bit OT but I don't know where else to quickly go.
> >>
> >> How can one follow on an old thread which one doesn't have in his/her
> >> mailbox?
> >
> >Hmm, didn't you just ask about that?  You locate the thread in the
> >archives, look at the "Raw text" of the message you'd like to reply to,
> >figure out its number (say, 89201), then send mail to <cygwin-get.89201 at
> >cygwin dot com>.
>
> FYI, the number in the archives is not necessarily the same as the
> number that you'd use to retrieve via email.
>
> The software that we run on sources.redhat.com aka cygwin.com is "ezmlm".
> If there are more advanced questions on using ezmlm, then a web search
> would unearth some documentation.
>
> cgf

If you mean that the message number in the archives (e.g., 00229 from
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00229.html>) is not the one you
use, then yes, that's absolutely true.

If, however, the number in the Return-Path header of a Cygwin list message
is not the number that you'd use to retrieve that message, then I've
completely misunderstood what ezmlm documentation I've read.  I know that
with sublists present, the sequence numbers may be different, but, IIUC,
the Cygwin lists don't utilize the sublist mechanism.  Also, some systems
may strip out the Return-Path header, but if it's present, it should
provide the right message number, right?
	Igor
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