Re: Borked e-mail threading [Was Re: HylaFax receives rubbish]

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

John Summerfield(debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au) is reported to have said:
> S.D.A. wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:01:00PM -0700 or thereabouts, Rodney D. Myers 
> >wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Not according to Sylpheed. Both times he started new threads
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >That's one of the reasons why I dropped Sylpheed early on!
> >
> >If one has an e-mail client that does real threading, which uses the 
> >message-id,
> >then those messages would have appeared in thread(s), totally unrelated to 
> >what
> >those threads were discussing. This is what happened here.
> >
> >Since most of the expert help on deb-user, is available from those using 
> >e-mail
> >clients like mutt, then it behooves one to know about responding properly. 
> >One
> >should create a new message, not hit reply and subsitute a new subject 
> >(that
> >keeps the original message-id in the headers).
> >
> >The reason why they appeared differently for you, is that Sylpheed most 
> >likely
> >only sorts by subject/date, (aka psuedo threading).
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> This is an excellent example of what happens when some twit uses "reply" 
> when "compose" is appropriate. I use an email client that threads 
> properly, this is going to be rolled up under "Can't post to...." where 
> I won't see it any more.

Now all you have to do John if get them to fix the To: & Cc: problem.

From: John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:38:35 +0800
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Borked e-mail threading [Was Re: HylaFax receives rubbish]
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:-)
WT
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