On 2014-05-26, at 19:31, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
>> Sometimes a reply has nothing to do with the
>> message to which the responder is replying, and the subject line is
>> totally different. Sometimes a reply is actually a response, and the
>> subject line might be the same ("hyperbole is great!"), somewhat
>> different ("perhaps communication is better [was: 'hyperbole is
>> great!']"), or totally different. Using simple message ID references and
>> the conventions of normal conversation, without turning it into an AI
>> project, seems the best we can manage.
> 
> I totally agree, in principle!  If there's a graph of message id's,
> the mail clients ought to make use of it over Stringy matching!  Just
> like I wish Eliot and Bert would use the graph of ancestry in
> Monticello rather than stringy name matching for "branches"..   :)

In case this is not just a meant-to-be-funny remark, you should start a new thread for that topic.

For my part I can't see much of an analogy here.

- Bert -

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