A reason for threading errors in Mail.app

[James Richards]

This is rather a late contribution to this discussion, but my brain has 
been working slowly.

Firstly, those who receive the digest (as I do) and then join in the 
discussion must completely 'throw' any kind of threading based on 
fingerprinting.  The most accurate threading for this list would 
normally be on the basis of subject line (thrown occasionally by the 
odd failure to edit the subject line).

Secondly, I had always previously understood the instruction about 
starting new topics to mean that I should no start an interesting 
discussion about global variables under a subject line referring to 
mail threading, but should change the subject line to match the 
discussion.  I can't be the only person who uses the 'Reply' command to 
get a new message all set up and then edits the subject line to reflect 
the topic.  Indeed I do this all the time since any attempt to reply to 
the digest (even on an existing topic) always produces a 'Re: 
use-revolution Digest, Vol ##, Issue ##' subject.

It seems to me that the standard is not well adapted to a mailing list 
of this kind.

Regards

James
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James J Richards

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Tel. +44 (0)15394 43063
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:07:17 -0700, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Dennis-
>
> Thursday, June 9, 2005, 2:14:35 PM, you wrote:
>
> DB> If this is a standard, then as a point of etiquette, members of a
> DB> list should a start new topic as a new mail message and not as a
> DB> reply to an unrelated thread.
>
> ...as has been pointed out many times...
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net