Hi, Bryan:
0) Thank you so much for coming to the rescue!!!
1) Basically trained as a radio frequency hardware engineer, I am
only capable of using software as tools necessary for my work. For
eMail, I have been using ThunderBird ever since its beginning. With my
own time-stamping Subject line discipline, I never needed its threading
function. When I received complaints last year, I experimented threading
on it and found that it was doing just fine. Whether I prefixed or
suffixed the timestamps to the Subject line could not break it. I
requested counter examples from those who were having difficulties with
my MSGs, but received none. Frustrated but not able to do anything, I
went back to continue my EzIP work, leaving this subject in the back
burner of my mind. This time around, the problem popped up again in the
midst of large number of MSG exchanges. I am so relieved that you
presented the threading on the NANOG eMail server that mirrors what I
saw on my own PC. So, we now have a common reference for everyone to
look at this phenomenon. (Why no one else knew about this facility?)
2) From the Wikipedia explanation of RFC5822, I as a ThunderBird
user, really have nothing to do with the Message-ID that it puts on my
MSGs nor how does it make use of such to display the threads. And, my
Subject line style can't affect it either. So, why some colleagues are
having difficulties with just my eMails, but seemly not from others?
Could this be caused by the large number of MSGs within a short period
of time that amplified this issue? From another feedback, I realized
that some colleagues may be using plain text text editors or alike for
eMail, because they could not see color nor italic emphasizing of my
text. Could such be related to this issue?
I would appreciate very much if you could advance my education with some
explanations after perhaps discussions with those offended by my MSGs.
Regards,
Abe (2024-01-13 17:37)
On 1/12/24 3:04 PM, Mu wrote:
Would it be possible for you to reply in-thread, rather than creating
a new thread with a new subject line every time you reply to someone?
Trying to follow the conversation becomes very difficult for no reason.
Threading has nothing to do with subject lines. RFC822 (now 5822)
specifies how this works based on message ID. This thread displays
fine in threaded mode in my MUA and in the archives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-January/thread.html
If people could please reply to threads properly, inline and trimming
non relevant text, it would make following discussion much easier.
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