Dear John,


Am Freitag, den 02.12.2011, 22:56 -0500 schrieb John Kitzmiller:
> Replying to the list in this manner--having to retype the subject--is
> unusual to me, and I hope it does not create problems for the list. Please
> help me on how to reply within the mail archive to make more efficient.
> Many thanks to those who have replied on the topic!

are you subscribed to the list? If yes, have you set up to get the
digest mode?

In either way, when participating in a discussion it is a good thing to
subscribe [1] and then configure the list to send you all messages. Then
you can reply to the list like you are used to and the threading is
kept.

To get the reference you can also download the archive as a mbox file
[3] and get the reference there or configure the correct message headers
(In-Reply-To, References).


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette
[3] http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/
    (last column)