GMail's threading (was Re: [WikiEN-l] A plea)

Fri Jul 15 22:59:36 UTC 2005

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 05:46:47 +1000
Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/15/05, James Gibbon <wikipedia at jamesgibbon.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:02:16 +0100
> > Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, not that I want to start moaning about gmail, but if the
> > > way it works is not in line with existing email clients and
> > > email servers, which it does, as it ignores the in-reply-to
> > > header, I wouldn't really call it "very good". :)
> > 
> > Agreed, was thinking the same thing myself! "Rather poor" is
> > probably a better description if that's the case.
> 
> It depends if you are talking about using it for viewing threads,
> which is what I was doing, or discussing compatibility with other
> browsers, which is what you two are doing!
> 

Personally, I was talking about its compatibility with accepted
standards for handling threads :D

James

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