On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:21:57AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:34PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > And neither of these replies had In-Reply-To or References headers, at > > > least by the time they reached me. > > > > The fiends! The people who create new threads by replying to something and > > polishing off all the visible parts of the message finally won, so now GMail > > does exactly what they *thought* was happening for them. > > > > Daniel > > > > I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing, honestly. I just feel old > > and > > curmudgeonly because of it. > > If Google did this deliberately, to address that, then I find it very > hateful indeed.
But clearly they *didn't* do just that, as that wouldn't be (that) hateful. They appear to be wiping references and reply-to if *just* the subject is edited. Rather than the subject *and all the quoted text* So they *have* made something broken. Which is hateful. Nicholas Clark
