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
James Richards wrote:
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
On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
James Richards wrote:
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,
Dan and Mac Mail.app users and anyone who replies to messages,
I have noticed that Mail.app seems to put seemingly unrelated threads
into an existing thread at times. I think I see a possible
explanation for this. In addition to the usual method of looking at
the subject text, I think
Dennis...
Thanks for the detective work. I think this is the reason for *some*
of the errors I see, but perhaps not all. Although it's possible the
fingerprinting is so deep and smart that it is indeed too smart for
its own good.
I wonder why Apple doesn't acknowledge this bug.
No, I
Dennis Brown wrote:
Dan and Mac Mail.app users and anyone who replies to messages,
I have noticed that Mail.app seems to put seemingly unrelated threads
into an existing thread at times. I think I see a possible
explanation for this. In addition to the usual method of looking at
the
Dan,
In any normal use of mail and replies between two parties this would
be a good feature. On a list like this one, I wish I could turn this
feature off. I do know who read which thread and cloned a new one
though. However, I am not sure what I can do with that piece of
trivia. I
Alex,
If this is a standard, then as a point of etiquette, members of a
list should a start new topic as a new mail message and not as a
reply to an unrelated thread.
Dennis
On Jun 9, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Dennis Brown wrote:
Dan and Mac Mail.app users and anyone who
I hate when they do that.
:-D
On Jun 9, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
A case of doing exactly what the standard says it should do.
~~
Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
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...
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-Mark Wieder
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