On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Craig Latta craig@netjam.org wrote:
In this case, I think that caused a problem for a different reason. Out of convenience (and this is something I will not do again), I sometimes start a new mail message by "replying" to an old one, then changing to my new subject line. I had assumed (without ever bothering to check) that mail threading is done based on subject line, and had not noticed that the mail headers contain the "In-Reply-To:" information that no doubt is used for connecting the mail threads.
Yes; in my case the gmane.org mail/NNTP gateway uses that to makeits references headers, and Mozilla Thunderbird uses those headers to display and manipulate threads when I read the gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general newsgroup.
So in the future I will not use "reply to" unless actually replying to something.
Thanks again!
Once again the tail wags the dog. So to do something natural like reply and change subject is outlawed because fixable software is broken? If we continue to tolerate the broken, guess what?
-C
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