On 04/06/2008, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:37:11PM +0100, Thomas
Dalton wrote:
detail. Changing subject lines when you reply
doesn't help when you
use a client that collapses threads to a single line with just the
first subject line (such as gmail) - you can't see that the subject
line has changed. Either that, or you break the thread, which is
equally annoying.
Gmail is stupid.
Any Mail User Agent that breaks threading on subject line changes is
equally stupid.
We've had a *reliable* way to thread email for 2 decades now; it's
called In-Reply-To. Works nice.
Yes, and that's how gmail does it, which means changing the subject
line usually has no effect (only one subject is shown for the whole
thread, and that's the original one). It only has an effect if the
mail client sending the email is broken and thus breaks the thread.