I looked back through the thread and it looks like the Re:'s accumulated starting here: ==== from luis jure reply-to csound@lists.bath.ac.uk to csound list date Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:54 PM subject [Csnd] Re: Re: [LAU] building csound from source - OOps/remote.c:70: error: storage size of 'ifr' isn't known mailing list Filter messages from this mailing list mailed-by lists.bath.ac.uk ==== I looks like luis's mail got to Re's stuck on AFTER the [Csnd] Every time Luis or Felipe replied another 'Re': was stuck on but [Csnd]' was added on the front of the subject line. Maybe the mailer doesn't see the 'Re:'s' that are after [Csnd] so they keep getting piled up. I really don't know much about it. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Brad Fuller wrote: > Jim sent me a private email about the "Re's", but I never saw them, > and this the first I've seen of the problem he's describing. > Also, I always send in plain text (from gmail webclient). > > I don't know the source of the problem. But, I'd gladly help find the problem. > > brad > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Jim Stevenson wrote: >> Arg! >> I counted at least 9 Re:s in the original subject line. >> They are most annoying to listen too, many for each post, >> but worse, unix mail can not display a very long subject field, >> so the meaningful part of the subject gets truncated. >> How about setting the list surver to truncate the pile of Re:s? >> >> -- >> >> Please answer in plain text, not mime attached html. >> >> Thanks much again as always. >> Jim >> > -- Brad Fuller www.bradfuller.com