On Wednesday 21 November 2012 12:09:54 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The main problem still is, that humans on this list count to much on all > kinds of automatic selection. An id shouldn't be that important as a > subject is. We had thousands of years of natural evolution and now we > try to be better than nature and to select by smart inventions, e.g. by > an id. Living beings should be able to select their self, instead of > using machines that does sort by e.g. an id. On this list there never is > a month without issues to "broken threads". Use a MUA and e.g. sort by > the subject, or anything else that's "human readable".
That is clearly Gmail's thinking, since it does indeed sort on subject - "conversation". I don't like it and much prefer threading by id, which I find very readable by this human. KMail on my machine is playing up this morning, but by that I mean that I am having more trouble than usual getting it to do what I want it to. If this state of affairs continues, I shall obviously have to do something about it; so that I can stay in control and not be taken over by the machine. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201211211225.25479.lisi.re...@gmail.com