[wxPython-users] Re: Responding to questions in the list

[Nate Silva]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:

> It depends entirely on what program you use to read e-mail.  I use
> Thunderbird.  I select the whole message I want to reply to, including
> the metadata (subject, from, date), and copy it to the clipboard.   
> Then
> I hit reply, then select the whole digest and do "Ctrl-Shift-V".  This
> pastes only the message I wanted, with the "reply" markers added.   
> Then
> I reformat the top line to the "On date, user wrote:" format,
> copy-and-paste the subject line, and go.
>
> It was a lot easier with PMMail.  If you hit reply while text was
> selected, it created a reply to only that text.

Keep in mind that some clients use message headers — Message-Id,  
References, In-Reply-To — for threading, NOT the subject.

While it’s not a big deal, copy-and-paste replies do get orphaned  
from their thread when viewed in many newsreaders or e-mail programs.

Regards,
Nate