2008/11/1 Philipp Thomas
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:59:31 -0400, you wrote:
That's why I read on-line using GMail. It's threaded and easy to keep up. Except when someone's mail throws in a RE: and it splits to a seperate thread. I think that I see this as 4 threads now.
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.
Philipp
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