On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 07:19 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
> [OT from thread]
> Bryan,
> What mail client you are using? Everytime you reply to a query instead
> of coming under the same thred a new thread is started.
Not everytime. Just when I append or change the latter part of a
subject. I'm from the "old school UseNet" generation, and follow the
O'Reilly Guidelines for group discussion. It's so old, that they are
difficult to find anymore (circa late '80s/early '90s).
It works brilliantly when your mail (SMTP) or news (NNTP) reader tracks
via 30+ year old Message-ID. That way you can thread dozens or even
hundreds of follow-ups, even if the topic changes, while still allowing
others to not have to read through dozens before getting to it.
> Makes it difficult to read a thread.
That's because you're using GMail, which doesn't track Message-ID.
It not only tries to rely on subject, but it does it rather
_incompletely_. I.e., GMail could _easily_ track appendages to the
subject, but it doesn't.
Ask Google to either thread by Message-ID or
I receive more thanks from people who find my stuff buried in Google
searches than I receive complaints from GMail users, so I continue to
use the O'Reilly Guidelines. Again, you'll note my posts thread
_perfectly_ in Mailman's Pipermail (used by this list), because my mail
clients (be it Yahoo/Web or Evolution) honor Message-ID. E.g.,
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-November/thread.html
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