Crafting Good Headers from the Archive . . . . (was: Re: [tlug] Re: Japanese in Xandros/Debian (lost the headers, sorry))

[jep200404 <jep200404@example.com>]

CL wrote:

> Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> > Sigh, once again I deleted too quickly--this is mutt, so there's no
> > recovery. 

> Do I politely mention the "A" word (archive) here?

He can recover the Subject from the archive, but not the 
Message-id (for the In-reply-to and References header lines). 
If the Message-id was added to what's visible in the archives, 
then Scott could make a reply with a proper In-reply-to and 
References header lines. 

Ah! So I decided to look at the HTML source of the archive, and voila! 
The blessed information is there. E.g., of any earlier letter of mine: 

   http://www.tlug.jp/ML/0707/msg00866.html

I see: 

   <!--X-Message-Id: 20070721010034.40e8eb6a.jep200404@example.com -->

which is close enough to the original header line: 

   Message-id: <20070721010034.40e8eb6a.jep200404@example.com>

So Scott _can_ make reply from the archives with good 
In-reply-to header line and References lines, 
although it would danged tedious to do. 

Jim