On Saturday 04 November 2006 15:44, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-11-04 08:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 22:40, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
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'Cause it's not my problem, obviously.
I think you must admit that, when a thread is broken and there is so much "spam re: spam re: spam ...." that the entire original subject line gets truncated, it does get a bit irritating :-)
Your mailer is broken if it bases something called "threads" on subject headers. Beyond being entirely fragile w.r.t. changes in the subject headers, it doesn't even permit a proper hierarchy to be constructed.
Take another look at my useragent, Randall.
Threads still get broken.. all it takes is for the reply chain to get busted.
In-Reference-To: headers rarely get "busted" (certainly not by mail clients). While thread hijacking is easy, the inverse--producing what appears based on the Subject: header to be part of an existing thread but which is not because it lacks a proper In-Reference-To: header--is too much work for people to do with any frequency. And besides, KMail is nice enough to have Subject-based threading as an additional option when a given folder has threading enabled. Lastly, this phenomenon is really neither here nor there as regards your wish to have people fix up Subject: headers to your liking. Besides, in my experience on lists such as this one which is by definition Linux-oriented and thus populated by a minimum of users of Outlook (Express) it occurs only rarely. Randall Schulz