Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

["Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Philipp Thomas <Philipp.Thomas2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then gmail is only doing poor man's threading, i.e. threading by
> subject. Real threading uses the Message-ID and In-Reply-To which
> allows reply trees. But I just looked at the header of your mail and
> both are set correctly, so the reason these mails start different
> mails is that those mails were created on MUAs that ignore the
> existence of In-Reply-To. Foremost among them is MS Outlook which  in
> more then ten years hasn't learnt to handle it.

What happens is that some mail systems attach the "Re:" to the
subject, and that can cause gmail to see it as a new thread.
Regardless, gmail is a lot easier than my netscape mail(which is aim
now much to my dismay - but I've had that account for 10 years, so
it's hard to get rid of it).

The biggest irritation with gmail is that it doesn't default to reply
to the list, so you have to edit it, and that it starts the message
out with top posting(but almost all of them do that from what I have
seen).  It's hard to get people to realize that top posting is not
good, especially since it doesn't give a reply to each part of the
message.  Oh well.
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