Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Don't you think that would be a time wasting sorting >> practice...especially when you consider that there could be multiple >> unique threads, each with dozens of messages in a given folder? >> > > Most modern mail clients seem to cache this information in local > files, same as they do with index info (to avoid having to parse a > potentially huge mbox file every time they visit a folder). > Yet, it is good to know that they don't rely only solely on the "In-Reply-To" header...as you've found out. > >> Don't >> you think using another header designed to help that task would be useful? >> > > Of course I do. I have nothing against the References header. My only > point is that In-Reply-To is still very much in use. > Nobody ever claimed that it wasn't being utilized. > This is really getting quite OT. The original issue was that Subject > threading is only ever used as a last resort (at least in Linux/Unix > clients) so people messing with it in the hope of changing the thread > topology are wasting their own and everyone else's time. > > -- It was the most I ever threw up, and it changed my life forever. -- Homer Simpson Homer Goes To College Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg
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