Tomasz, I understand. But the MUAs mostly link by Subject: line; I'm suggesting that GMail could do the same, at least for notes classified as "Forums". "We have the technology"...
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 01:54:25PM -0400, zMan wrote: > > Sure would be nice if GMail were half as good at threading as COBOL is at > > detecting recursive calls. I see TEN different threads with the same > > subject. > > > > (Yes, I understand Message-ID and that some mailers [human or otherwise] > > remove it, thus breaking automatic threading, but for discussion > > lists--which Google already groks, as it puts these threads into > Forums--it > > could use a slightly less restrictive algorithm, nu?) > > I am not sure if this is gmail's fault. It seems to me, bad messages > lack the "In-Reply-To" field in their headers. Some messages from > gmail users I have inspected display this field, some do not. Without > it, most if not all MUAs (mail user agent - program to read and write > emails) cannot process threads correctly. > > I spend considerable amount of time manually linking broken threads[0] > in my MUA, even before I decide if the thread is worth reading. Every > time I bless the keyboard shortcuts (never have to touch mouse to > read). These come mostly from IBM-MAIN, sometimes from one or two > other lists I am subscribed to. > > A quick inspection suggests that one of the "offenders" [1] does not > send his emails via gmail, even as he comes with a gmail address. So > perhaps source of the problem lies beyound gmail's domain. > > [0] To the point when I start thinking this should be computer's job. > > [1] Bill Woodger, I am looking at you but I am not accusing you, > m'kay? But when I send this message, I will chase down your answer to > zMan and manually link it. Again... > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
