I agree this is a very important issue. However, TBBETA is a better place to suggest and discuss new features, I therefore cross post your letter there (or here, depending on where you are reading this :-)
-- Regards, Marcus Ohlstr�m Using The Bat! v1.62/Beta7 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 PGP Public Key at http://www.canit.se/~marcus/pgp.asc On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 12:16, Roman Katzer wrote: > as I'm sure most of you have noticed, the threaded view of messages on > this list works just wonderfully. This is because you can set TB to sort > by references and most users on this list do use The Bat to write their > messages. References and subjects are generated correctly. Pure bliss. > However, in the cruel world out there there are other mailing lists! Lists > that have users with all kinds of mail programs. Threaded view doesn't > work on these lists, neither threading by reference nor threading by > subject. Somehow TB doesn't thread messages correctly that haven't been > created with TB. At least most of the time. > I don't think that all other mail programs generate bad subjects or > references, so why does TB not work? > Sure, I could go out there and evangelize, ask them to use TB, but some of > them might not be inclined to use a new program. > Instead, might it be possible that TB is fixed to thread correctly? Look > at the code of mutt (a free, open-source mail client in the unix world) to > see how robust threading is implemented. They have only one option to > thread, and that works as good as can be expected, way better than TB. > This is one of the very few points in which I think TB can be greatly > improved. I hope the developers are getting this. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
