Reid, Your test doesnt work when you are looking at messages that you yourself sent. Messages you send from a given thread are always in the same thread, but messages from someone else from the same thread with a different subject are not put in the same thread, and that is the problem on the list.
Regards, Hank On 2/13/07, Reid Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:00 -0500, hank williams wrote: > On 2/13/07, Reid Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:02 -0500, hank williams wrote: > > > hmm... guess those Google guys aren't smart enough to handle mail "the > > > better way". With your way, even if you change the subject it would be > > > part of the same thread. > > I believe that is proper --> to remain part of the same thread. To > > create a new thread, start with a new email -- do not reply to a current > > thread with an altered subject. > > > > Well, it depends on how you define "proper". Again, to me this is > about user interface, and what is expected behavior. I dont think your > average (non-programmer) would think that a > new message with a a new message no, which is what I said to do if you want to create a new thread -- but the conversation was about replying to a previous message and changing the subject expecting it to start a new thread -- which does not work. > different subject would be in the same thread. My gmail account does this, so anyone using gmail should expect it after seeing it occur -- see below. Replies to emails with changed subject show in the same thread/conversation, not new or separate ones. > More importantly, the > interface revolution in gmail is the grouping of threads by subject. Not based on what I just did ( subject threading may be a fallback mechanism as mentioned earlier -- evolution has this 'option' also). > This is one of the reasons that so many people love gmail. It makes > what used to be a much more complicated thing much easier to follow. I > think people are voting with their email accounts and by this measure > people in mailing lists *love* the gmail design. The high percentage > of gmail use vs aol or hotmail or outlook or whatever is no > coincidence. > > Regards, > Hank In my gmail account: create a message with subject "Test Thread" - body "Test Thread". Send it. Reply to it from gmail account, Change the subject to "Test Thread Two" - body to "test thread Two", Send it. Reply to Test Thread Two, Change subject to "Test Thread three" - body to "Test Thread 3", Send it. View Test Thread Three,,, see that Google 'threaded' all three messages as one thread/conversation, not three separate ones.
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