> The only way is the subject.  You can do a diff on the 
> subject and see how much of it changed.  So that if you add 
> Solved: or Spam: or Re: or Fwd: to the subject line, it 
> doesn't change the thread.  But if somebody creates a brand 
> new subject, it should be a brand new thread.

My point is simply that this isn't something that can easily be solved by
programming. If I leave the subject alone, or if my mail reader puts "RE:"
in front of it, it would be a non-trivial problem for a program to determine
whether the body text is relevant to the subject.

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