Per, On Monday 06 February 2006 12:53, Per Jessen wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
The post was on-topic for the list. What is being objected to as "hijacking" is the use of the mail client's "reply" function to start a brand new topic. Many of us use mailers that organize messages into hierarchical structures based on replies (these structures are called threads). This is done not by the subject (*) but by examining normally hidden header fields.
The Message-ID field in particular.
Actually, the link itself is the value in the In-Reply-To field. It refers to the Message-ID of the replied-to message. This makes the In-Reply-To value like a foreign key in a relational database with the Message-Id as the primary key.
(*) Some mailers will organize pseudo-threads based on subject or will
One might be tempted to say "pseudo-mailers" :-)
Well, KMail has the "Thread Message also by Subject" option, but it's about the best mail client I've ever used. The last I used Eudora, the lack of true threading was its biggest weakness. It would group messages by subject, but that alone is a very weak organizing principle.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Randall Schulz