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Re: mea máxima culpa
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David Kastrup |
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Re: mea máxima culpa |
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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:55:23 +0200 |
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Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all,
>
>> I have no idea how your email system would figure out just what mail Tim
>> had been replying to. The information is just not there in the headers.
>
> Apple Mail uses the Subject (as text), and I imagine there are other
> applications that do the same.
Oh, short of other information, my mailing system groups together
articles with a common subject line in chronological order. Sure. But
it has no clue who replied to whom, and it can't fetch related mails
from the server without reading a whole bunch of messages with various
subjects based on their chronological order alone and then trying to
sort based on subject and chronology afterwards.
> This of course leads to any number of frustrations, including "re: re:
> test" not being threaded with "re: test", and mail from completely
> different conversations (with the same subject line) being threaded
> together.
Well yes, a thread is logically a _tree_. A chronological sort only
renders a list, and that's just not useful for tracking a particular
conversation to its start.
There may be mailing systems that actually can't do better than that
anyway, but most of them should preserve more from the threading.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: mea máxima culpa, (continued)
- Re: mea máxima culpa, David Kastrup, 2013/09/11
- Re: mea máxima culpa, Tim Roberts, 2013/09/11
- Re: mea máxima culpa, Tim Roberts, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, David Kastrup, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, Carl Peterson, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, David Kastrup, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, Carl Peterson, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, David Kastrup, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, Carl Peterson, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, David Kastrup, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, David Rogers, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, Phil Holmes, 2013/09/12
- Re: mea máxima culpa, David Kastrup, 2013/09/12