Robert Hanson <roberth at abbacomm.net> wrote: > too many threads, can we consolidate and get back on track? If you check the Message-ID, they are _all_ the _same_ thread. Maintaining the root subject helps avoid this, just append follow-ups with the relevant change in focus. E.g., I did when we went someone brought up nscd. I did it again when BIND was clearly the focus. I did the same when I focused on the Windows client. If you view the archives, they are so threaded _together_. If you [re-]append the subject, and sort by thread, date or even subject, you can easily pick out the relevant posts you are interested in (without having to read _all_ of them). And they still sort well by subject, _unlike_ pre-pending the subject with something different. That should _only_ be done when the subject changes massively. Mailing lists via SMTP, just like UseNet groups via NNTP, can benefit from this approach which was laid out in the O'Reilly Posting Guidelines from long ago. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)