Thanks and solution to "incorrect starting balance in reconcile."

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

> There is no ’solved’ function of the mailing list. It’s not like a
> forum or ticketing system, it’s just group e-mail.
>
> The best practice if you find a solution you want to specify or
> document is to simply post it as a reply to the original
> thread. (rather than starting a new one)

For those unaware, he's referring to some common pitfalls that even I
made in the beginning of mailing list usage:

- Changing the "Subject" header field.

  Don't put "Solved" or anything. In maximum, you can put "Re:", "Fw:"
  and "(was: ...)", and for this last one, use it in the end.

  If you do want to change the subject only to start a completely
  different topic, do so using something like this: "Sub-topic B (was:
  Let's talk about A)".

  Some email clients or webmails do some nasty stuff with the message
  headers and with parts of the "Subject" field, such as nationalizing
  "Re:", "Fw:" and "(was: ...)", this makes other clients confused.

- Using "Compose new" or simple "Reply".

  Please use "Reply to list/group" instead. You can also use "Reply to
  all" but in this case the original poster will get duplicate emails
  unless you remove his address from the "To" field.

  "Reply" is for private replies to the original poster (in this case
  it's a good idea to change the "Subject" so that the person knows it's
  a private branch of the discussion). The other reply buttons are "wide
  replies".

  All in all, using reply buttons is better than "Compose new" because,
  if you take the time to use your email client or webmail to inspect
  the raw messages you receive, you will see interesting information
  such as "Message-ID", "In-Reply-To", and "References", all of these
  tell us about the hierarchy of the messages and their parent ones,
  when you do "Compose new", this information is lost unless you can
  force the email client or webmail to allow you to insert/add raw
  header fields to the message, in this case you will have to add the
  missing information manually.

  If I'm not mistaken, even if you happen to *not have* the original
  message that caome from this mailing list, you can go to the list's
  archive and once the message is found, you can do this:

  1. The email address of the person who wrote the message is actually a
     "mailto" URL, copy it and take the part between "In-Reply-To=" and
     the next "&" (if any future "&" exists), or the part between
     "In-Reply-To=" and the end (if no more "&" exists).

  2. You have now a percent/URL-encoded "In-Reply-To" field value. Like
     this:

     %3CCADYgSbmaLUFqw8D%2BjqWqJTTVxc7TCYaQsks3VGA65W%3DbtJEoWA%40mail.gmail.com%3E

     "%3C", "%40" and "%3E" are "<", "@" and ">", respectively. Be aware
     that you will have to watch out and decode other two letters which
     appear after each percent sigh ("%").

All of this assumes that you are *not* using unofficial
mailing-list-to-forum forwarders such as Nabble.

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