On 05/16/2011 9:43 AM, Michael Witten wrote:
Unfortunately, email systems have evolved in such a way that the standard
headers `References' and `In-Reply-To' are horribly [ab]used; the result
is that interfaces for navigating threads invariably mangle threading
(in my opinion, the main problem is caused by the fact that nobody cares
what `In-Reply-To' says and everybody makes naive assumptions about what
`References' supplies).
In any case, I dare you to go here:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172431.html
and play around with `Thread Previous' and `Thread Next', and then provide
an explanation for WTF is going on (note dates too).
Now, admittedly, this isn't necessarily a problem with perlbug or
rt.perl.org's software, but I would add that the request tracker
exacerbates this situation by flinging copies of emails all over the
place with various Message-Ids and semi-spoofed `From' headers.
Surely something can be done to make working via email more seamless;
the request tracker should just be a third-party recording the
discussion (and only spoofing messages sent explicitly via its
interface).
Sincerely,
Michael Witten
Looks like whatever software is threading the messages is not
compensating for time zones and/or is running on utc.
If you wanted a guess.
