Yasha Karant wrote:
I apologize if this appears off the direct SL topic; however, please
bear with me.
In a postscript comment and question to a recent email, as well as
from responses to a previous discourse ("thread"), it appears that
MUAs are highly inconsistent with respect to threads. Irrespective of
whatever RFCs that may exist on this matter, the reality is what is in
the production MUAs.
Here is a suggestion. At this epoch, Mozilla Thunderbird exists for
essentially all workstation (end user interface computer) platforms
and environments. Thunderbird accepts plug-ins and extensions. Can
an extension be written for Thunderbird that properly handles threading?
Such an extension would eliminate/address issues such as:
Users of badly-threaded MUAs like mine (M$ OutLook) would see a new
thread because they go STRICTLY by the text of the subject line.
Users of well-threaded MUAs would see the new post in the old thread,
with a subject change.
It's a situation where you're damned if you do, and double-damned if you
don't.
End quote.
The only case under which my scheme could not work is when the
organization/employer insists on a particular MUA (e.g., a MS product)
that does not properly respect threading.
The caveat is once this is done, it would need to be maintained as
Thunderbird evolves.
Again, I apologize for continuing this subject, but establishing a
clean conforming standard avoids the sorts of discord that a well
intended question caused.
Yasha Karant
I think the majority of us don't care and are sick of seeing all of
these garbage emails on the list. Can we just drop it and move on?
Troy addressed this nearly a week ago. Enough is enough!
-Mark
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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
Digital Systems Engineer
National Electrostatics Corp.
P.O. Box 620310
Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
Phone: (608) 831-7600
Fax: (608) 831-9591
