On Tue 26, Jan'10 at 11:50 AM -0500, Jim Kubicek wrote:
I think the way Gmail handles threading and subjects is the right way to handle this.
Other than the fact that Gmail doesn't really thread. It's more of a 'group messages of the same subjects together and sort by date'.
Give the option to delete the In-Reply-To header. Or make it default to remove the header when you change the subject. You could also have a pop up warning or similar mechanism (with the option to turn it off) that warns when you have replied, changed the subject, and haven't deleted the In-Reply-To header. There are many ways that this could be configured. Of course, you wouldn't have to mention the In-Reply-To header, but instead just have a button marked "Break thread" or something similar.
and while we're on the subject of Gmail, the way that Gmail handles replies to your own sent mail is clearly the right way to handle it, i'm surprised that nobody else does it this way.
mutt does the same thing. Gives three reply options. Reply, reply to all, reply to list. If I was the sender of the message I'm replying to (and my address is included in the list of 'my addresses'), when I hit reply, it addresses it to the recipient of the original message I sent. Reply to all does a similar thing.
Further more, with the reply to list command, I can easily send a message to the list address. Reply goes to the original From address, and reply to all goes to the sender AND the list (useful when the sender isn't a subscriber to the list).
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