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 no longer make a new thread that way, now I start with a
new message and drag/drop the to: field. I am curious, did the
previous/this message show up in a different thread in your mail.
You can tell which thread I cloned this from by the mail body reference.
Dennis
On Jun 9, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
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 don't. They'd call it a feature.
On Jun 9, 2005, at 1:30 PM, 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 subject text, I think mail.app also fingerprints
messages somehow, so it knows when a reply is to that message --
even if the subject line is altered. So if somebody starts a new
thread by replying to a thread I started or replied to, just to
get the header info, then replaces the body and subject lines to a
new topic, my Mail.app assumes it is still related to the original
message. I just tested out this theory by replying to a thread I
started, but I changed everything about the message except the To:
line. Sure enough the message came back threaded to the unrelated
message I started it from.
A case of too smart for its own good!
Dennis
On May 23, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
Howard.....
I thought I was the only one experiencing this problem. I've
posted messages on two or three OS X message boards and haven't
had a single reaction or response.
Threads seem to collect unrelated messages more or less at random.
But it's still better for me than the old way.
On May 23, 2005, at 4:45 AM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
I used to do that but I really don't like the way Mail does
threading.
It never really works on my Mac.
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