On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Dave Sergeant wrote: > I use Pegasus Mail and view the posts threaded, which by and large > works excellently. No need to quote lots in mails as it is very easy to > locate the original mails. > > But Pegasus Mail truncates subject lines, as displayed in folder views, > to 35 characters, something that will be changed in a later version of > Pegasus but not for a while yet. Each email on this list is prefixed > with [libreoffice-users] together with various [re:], [fwd:] and other > things. Net result is that there are very few characters left out of > the 35 to accurately thread on, and I get all sorts of totally > different things threaded together. > > If the list admin changed this to something like [lo-users] or even > [lou] it would make threading far more reliable.
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