\begin{sotto voce} I can't believe I'm jumping into a thread like this. \end{sotto voce}
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 at 10:23am, Les Mikesell wrote
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:52, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Not all mail/news readers track exclusevly via Message-ID, References and In-Reply-To headers.
So in other words, they decide to snub decades of Internet standards.
They are realistic about people's use of email. They hit reply/reply-all to reply to the sender/group, not necessarily to the content of the previous message, and they change the subject line when it isn't relevant and they are changing
Ah, so we ignore established standards based on users' stupidity. Good idea.
the topic. Please resume this argument when you have taught the rest of the world the value of the headers they can't
Threading that *works* is the value that users would notice.
see and some way to get the address list from a message without making an irrelevant In-Repy-To:.
Yeah, because address books are *so* hard to use.
I'm sorry, but making decisions based on Stupid User Tricks is about the worst policy I can imagine. That way lies madness.