On 2015-12-22, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> On 2015-12-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> So as far as I am concerned, if changes of subject line breaks threading for
>>> you, so sad, too bad. Go without threading or use a better mail client.
>>
>
On 2015-12-21 23:24, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> That sounds a bit confused - if the *intention* of changing the
> subject line is to create a new thread, then breaking the thread
> is not "breaking threading" ;-)
I'm pretty sure that the purpose is not to *break* the thread, but to
suggest that the sub-
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-12-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> So as far as I am concerned, if changes of subject line breaks threading for
>> you, so sad, too bad. Go without threading or use a better mail client.
>
> Same here. After getting what is effectiv
On 2015-12-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> So as far as I am concerned, if changes of subject line breaks threading for
> you, so sad, too bad. Go without threading or use a better mail client.
Same here. After getting what is effectively a "F*&# Y*& I'm too lazy
to do things right" from multiple
Random832 wrote:
> This makes sense for the change from "old" to "new (was: old)",
> which nobody was advocating against (after all, there's semantic
> content - they wouldn't have changed the subject line if they
> didn't consider it a new discussion topic), but I think there is
> a reasonable ar
Cameron Simpson writes:
> Besides, changing the Subject line is _supposed_ to break the
> threading in these contexts: such clients clearly consider the
> discussion topic (subject) as sufficient definition of a thread, and
> changing the topic should imply a new thread to such simplistic
> client
On 22Dec2015 10:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:44 am, Jon Ribbens wrote about mail clients that use
the Subject line to thread messages:
Also: Thunderbird, The Bat!, Eudora, Gnus, Outlook, Outlook Express,
Pegasus Mail, Pine, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail,
Evolut
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Jon Ribbens
wrote:
> On 2015-12-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> The whole purpose of the change of subject is to indicate in a human-visible
>> way that the subject of the thread has changed, i.e. that it is a new
>> thread derived from the old one. If that breaks t
On 2015-12-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:44 am, Jon Ribbens wrote about mail clients that use
> the Subject line to thread messages:
>> Also: Thunderbird, The Bat!, Eudora, Gnus, Outlook, Outlook Express,
>> Pegasus Mail, Pine, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail,
>> Ev
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:44 am, Jon Ribbens wrote about mail clients that use
the Subject line to thread messages:
> Also: Thunderbird, The Bat!, Eudora, Gnus, Outlook, Outlook Express,
> Pegasus Mail, Pine, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail,
> Evolution, SquirrelMail, KMail, Windows Mail, e
Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2015-12-21, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> I can't specifically recall if I've used any MUA other than Gmail that
>> even attempts threading email messages.
>
> Also: Thunderbird, The Bat!, Eudora, Gnus, Outlook, Outlook Express,
> Pegasus Mail, Pine, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail,
On 2015-12-21, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
>> Ian Kelly writes:
>>> This isn't just a Usenet group; it's also a mailing list, and many
>>> MUAs rely on the Subject header for proper threading.
>>
>> If such MUAs do that, they're misinterpreting the Su
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ian Kelly writes:
>> This isn't just a Usenet group; it's also a mailing list, and many
>> MUAs rely on the Subject header for proper threading.
>
> If such MUAs do that, they're misinterpreting the Subject field. Other
> fields are available w
Ian Kelly writes:
> Better yet, please don't change the Subject header for trivial reasons
> in the first place.
When the subject of the ongoing discussion changes, it's normal to
change the Subject field accordingly.
I agree with your admonition against trivial alterations to that field;
I hop
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