I mean, "When I read the list in GMail, I don't want to see a thread broken into 27 different ones simply because some folks use non-compliant MUAs."
Principle of Least Astonishment suggests, at least to me, that this would make sense. And given that the predominant desktop client (Outlook--like it or not, it is the predominant one) just looks at Subject:, and that mistakenly merging a thread in a discussion forum is pretty unlikely, I'm suggesting that there's no real downside. Heck, people reply to existing threads with new topics; this is the inverse. And less likely (what are the odds that there will be two unconnected threads called "GMail vs. COBOL" at the same time?) I certainly understand the purist argument; maybe it could be optional (though I'd argue that it should be enabled by default). But this is really OT and I misdoubt that GMail devs read this list... ...though maybe they should! On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 05:02:38PM -0500, Bill Woodger wrote: > > And now from the archive, posted as a reply to my last. > > > > Both messages came to my mailbox, unlinked from the thread and from > each other. But I have already linked them. I am using mutt, all it > takes is four strokes per message - and if the message comes with its > own subthread linked below, that is even better, whole subthread gets > placed where it belongs. > > During last two years I have learned to enter those strokes without > thinking much - *<home>n& - and n to locate next lost subthread. I > think it is time to configure my first keyboard macro in mutt, if > possible. > > If you would like to try something, I will try to help. > > -- > 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
