Hello Robert D. & everyone else, on 04-Nov-2005 at 15:56 you (Robert D.) wrote:
> Some of the Lists I am on, the people change the bloody subject lines > but are actually replying to the correct thread ... it's a nightmare > for sure. > And AOL, for goshsakes, their reply format never makes the ">" > character, so what I ALWAYS see if the original text as if written by > the new reply-person. Anyway, this is subject for new thread I suppose > <sigh> Welcome to the sad sad reality of email "standards"... as long as the rule-set called "RFC" doesn't even explicitely make a message-id mandatory (the wording there is only "should", not "must"), you can forget about threading by Reference on lists where multiple clients are used. Outlook2003 doesn't even CREATE a message-id, because, according to MS, users requested to leave it away because it is a privacy-issue: the message-id contains the localhost netbios name - the only thing they forgot are the "received" header lines that contain the same name as well. As long as there aren't really rigid rules for the contents of an email message, and as long as servers aren't rejecting messages that don't follow these rules, things won't change. OTOH there are clients that have a really really fine threading mechanism, using references, subject and date, like MUTT, and they beat TB easily. -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) Rudin's Law: In crises that force people to choose among alternative courses of action, most people will choose the worst one possible. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.62.09 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
