Hello Steven P Vallière & everyone else, on 27-Sep-2006 at 13:46 you (Steven P Vallière) wrote:
> threaded views a rarely correctly organized (except in groups like > this one where everyone is using the same email program). Try to use threading by reference and subject (combined). Press ALT+5 in the messagelist to activate it, or by reference alone (ALT+1). Its not a cure-all, but usually better than threading by subject alone. Threading by reference fails when there are no references. Crappy webmailers like hotmail, aol and whatnot simply leave out these headers. Outlook 2003, when sending directly over an ISPs smtp server, even leaves out the message-id. You can't possibly thread these messages correctly. These mailers are RFC-ignorant, but as long as the RFC only says "should" and not "must" in the specs for references and in-reply-to headers (as well as the message-id), there's not much to do about it but re-thread the wrongly or un-threaded messages. > I'd like to suggest/request an option for the threading model to > either do whatever it is doing now (for those who like it) *OR* to > have it skip over all known forms of the 're' prefixes. Perhaps even > allowing the user to specify a regular expression for what constitutes > the various types of 're' prefixes that are to be ignored when trying > to match subject lines for threading. Add a supporting note to this wishlist item, please: http://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=5152 > Also note that some of the threads contain messages from DIFFERENT > THREADS! If threads contain different messages, its usually not because TB makes an error here, but because the users are too ignorant. When they want to write a new message, they choose the reply function instead (because they are too lazy to type in the list address, for example) and most of them are completely unaware of these "references" headers - they don't know that, even if they change the subject, the reference to the original message is still part of the reply. Notifying those people about their irritating behaviour is like being Don Quixote fighting the windmills. You can always re-thread messages (was implemented in some v3 of TB): drag & drop a message onto a thread to re-thread it, shift-drag to un-thread it. -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de) The trouble with today's individuals is that they're getting harder and harder to tell apart. -- Carl Antczak ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
