robert wrote: > FWIW, when I see a draft with References that is getting a bit long, > I just (manually) delete all the stuff in the middle) - that is, leave > in the oldest (one or two) and the most recent (one or two) and delete > everything in between - no-one has ever complained about my messages > breaking any threading schemes (in fact, does anyone actually use > References for that, rather than just In-Reply-To and Subject ?)
in fact, they do. i think mutt is particularly good at doing threading that way, and in my experience those users are particularly vocal about how everyone else is doing it wrong. :-) some mailing list archives use References for threading as well -- in my opinion they usually make the archive harder, not easier, to read. > I did that here (though there weren't really enogh refs to require it, and > I would not normally have bothered.) > > Sometimes I even add entries to References, when I am reply to one message > and quote from another that is not in the current thread. No-one seems > to object to that either. i guess i'd ask a similar situation to yours: does anyone actually use References to track mail in the way you're suggesting? > .... > ps: my assumption about the way that References ought to be used, in a > really good MUA mail reader (particularly a GUI reader) is to generate a > menu of related messages for the user to go read - once at one of those, > the user can go forward/backward in the thread to find others that weren't in > the References of the original message. Ideally, when sending a message > the thread head, most recent (same as in-reply to) and any messages that > contain content actually referred to in the message would be in References, > and nothing else .. but getting that right (even manually) is HARD. it's the going forward/backward that always seems to be broken, since the References headers form a tree, not a linear sequence. (and all of this is, of course, entirely unrelated to whether the header line should be wrapped or not.) paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 56.5 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
