Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838

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jlb17@duke.edu 11/22/05 11:29AM >>>

\begin{sotto voce} I can't believe I'm jumping into a thread like this. \end{sotto voce}

***I can.

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 at 10:23am, Les Mikesell wrote

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:52, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

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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 World Famous "Are You Sure" could/should ask these SU's, ***when the change the subject line in any way, whether they intend ***to make a new thread of just change the subject in the current thread.

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. ***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.

***Or worse, imitates the Congress of the United States.

*** My vote's with Bryan & Joshua... if only it counted...

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