[CentOS] [OT] Message-ID Threading w/Subject Append Example -- WAS: pine rpm for centos 4
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Nov 22 17:09:39 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 08:22 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting "Bryan J. Smith" <thebs413 at earthlink.net>:
>
> > Look at all the changes in the discussion. By threading by Message-ID,
> > the subject can be appended (or even pre-pended with the RE/WAS combo)
> > and let browsers find the relevant section rather quickly.
>
> There's couple of problems here:
>
> Not all mail/news readers track exclusevly via Message-ID, References and
> In-Reply-To headers. Some don't even generate/update optional References and
> In-Reply-To. Some will start brand new thread each time Subject changes, even
> if they otherwise follow References and In-Reply-To.
>
> Whenever you changed subject line, you went totally off-topic (meaning, you
> should have not posted to the list at all). Please, don't generate
> chaos. While chaos might be natural state of universe, it shouldn't be
> the natural
> state of this particular mailing list.
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sounds like a Bill Maher new rule.
;-)
Craig
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