On 8/11/2003 2:57 PM, Allen Watson deftly typed out: > I don't think you can really call this an "abnormality." Entourage is > grouping things alphabetically by subject, and with the variety of prefixes > anyone might throw in, expecting it to ignore the prefix, ignore the "Re: " > or "Fw: " as well (which it does now when there are no other prefixes > present), and sort by the rest of the line, is asking a bit much. Newsgroups > retain threading by reference numbers that mail messages don't have, so > newsgroups can retain threading even if someone completely changes the > subject! Unfortunately, there is no way (currently, and I hope ever) to > _enforce_ such a standard on every mail client out there, so it won't happen > with email. If you change the subject...and that's what adding a prefix is > doing...you break the threading.
Some mail clients, I believe, take advantage of the Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers to help in threading mailing list messages. It'd be nice if Entourage could take advantage of this as well. -Remo Del Bello -- "Yet even the most subtle spiders may leave a weak thread." - Gandalf the Grey in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
