[NTLK] Re: Entourage Threading problem with the list

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 08:43:18 PDT

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on 15/06/01 11:33, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> I don't know if others noticed this, and if other email clients are also
>> affected, but the way that the list put the "[NTLK]" prefix to every
>> subject, specially for the reply, breaks the threading in Entourage.
>>
>> Basically, I have a message that says:
>>
>> Subject: [NTLK] Blah Blah Blah
>>
>> Then, if someone replies, the subject will be:
>>
>> Subject: [NTLK] Re: Blah Blah Blah
>>
>> It seems that Entourage is unable to pick this, so, as a result, I often
>> have to dig down in the list of message to see if someone has already
>> replied to an original post.
>>
>> Is it possible to keep the same behavior than what I observed in
>> NewtonTalk2? A reply would then look like:
>>
>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Blah Blah Blah
>>
>> Not that I want to push something, only asking. Pros? Cons?
>
> This is a configurable option in Listar, and I figured that this would
> make the most sense and look the nicest. But if it's causing problems for
> people then I can change it. Listar will still remove the extra "Re:"'s
> added by e-mail clients.
>
> Hopefully this won't affect Hypermail's indexing and threading of the list
> archive, but I think it'll be fine.

That would be very appreciated, if it doesn't break or upset anybody, of
course...

-Laurent.

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