From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 11:30:28 PST
Dan wrote:
> Well most email clients allow you to sort via subject (which works best if
> you sort mail lists to separate folders). That gives you almost the same
> kind of view. The only time it fails is when the subject line changes.
> However with this list, that is usually when the topic changes anyway.
But threading in e-mail actually doesn't rely on the subject line. It relies
on the In-Reply-To header which, if it exists, should contain the message ID
that the message is a reply to. All modern mail clients that I've seen add
this header properly, and anything that supports threading e-mail should use
it. The subject line can also be used as a hint, but it shouldn't be relied
upon.
Some people like to start a new topic by hitting reply on a post, then just
deleting the subject and body. But this causes their mail client to still
consider the message part of a thread, and so sometimes I get messages
attached to threads that are totally unrelated.
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