From: Tom von Alten (tom_vonalten@boi.hp.com)
Date: Mon May 17 1999 - 16:38:01 CDT
Christina Williams Heikkila wrote:
> One problem with using the In-reply-to message ids to determine
> threading is that many people (including myself) keep a large mail
> inbox. When we want to send an email to a person, we just scroll up
> to one they sent to us, and just reply to it, changing the subject
> line. This creates threads where there shouldn't be.
I'm concerned about the other sort of failing also - not threading messages
that should be threaded. Having done some of the coding to keep threads
intact, I know it has its difficulties, but the ease of simply relying on
In-Reply-To doesn't make it a good solution.
I guess what we need is a volunteer to code it in C....
The best solution will not require enforcing "proper" behavior on users,
since that simply is not possible.
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