Re: Thread extension weirdness

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Ken,

--On Friday, January 10, 2003 8:46 AM -0500 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

|> Question for the list: should it?
|
| FWIW, Cyrus does. This is because the header is decoded for the SEARCH
| and then passed on to SORT/THREAD. Interestingly, Netscape Messenger
| makes separate threads, even though the algorithms are supposed to be
| similar/same.
|
| I'd vote that the draft is fine, and that UW needs to be fixed (less
| work for me ;)

FYI My client-side implementation of the THREAD algorithm also does it as per the current draft 'by default' since the subject is already MIME decoded and 2822 unfolded by the time it gets processed. I believe that is the right thing to do.

However, I will again voice my annoyance with the fact that the THREAD=REFERENCES extension does any kind of grouping based on subject. This is an attempt to fix the behaviour of broken (old) clients that do not generate proper In-Reply-To and References headers at the expense of legitimate clients that generate those headers in conformance to 2822.

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Cyrus Daboo