On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:04 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm certain Gmail will also be able to figure out the mail you are > replying to without referring to any header at all as long as any Gmail > user has not yet deleted it (and probably even afterwards). But for a > normal mail server/client setup not relying on a universal freely > associating data kraken on the server end, one needs to have information > as specific as a Message Id in order to do reliable queries.
My understanding is that Gmail does not cross reference messages from multiple accounts to figure out threading. I'll also issue a mea culpa of my own. When you mentioned threading, I was not thinking in the sense of a tree. I was only considering the idea of a "conversation," understanding which messages belong together. To my knowledge, Gmail does not attempt to figure out who is replying to whom, but uses a chronological sequencing. > > Regarding the actual subject matter, my previously-voiced frustration > > is that the individual messages are *not* set up to reply to the list > > by default. > > Don't use "Reply to sender" if you don't want to reply to the sender. (1) 99% of the time, if I'm replying to a message, I'm intending to reply to the list. Defaults are usually selected to in some way minimize effort, which brings me to (2), I'm lazy. Reply all requires extra mouse-clicks. > > As a matter of consistency, I think both the individual > > messages and the digest should reply to the list, or neither. > > Do you mean to imply that the digest _does_ add an explicit Reply-To: > header and it goes to the list? That would indeed be on the less than > sane side. > I have no idea what the digest does or doesn't do. I am replying to your prior statement, "Maybe the reply-to header of the digest should not even point to the list?" As Tim pointed out, the non-digest messages do not and your proposal would be logically consistent with that. I am simply stating a preference for the reply-to of both to do so. I don't see how this is on the less-than-sane side.
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