On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +0000, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: > > headers. > > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what > > and > > have the ability to show an email 'thread'. I use mutt which does this. > > Most people do not use a good MUA. The email interfaces of the top three > mailbox providers split threads when the subject line changes, a > misfeature I was shocked to learn about having never used any of them.
But with gmail, that's self-inflicted, isn't it? I was under the impression that you can read email from a gmail account with IMAP if you want to. Or POP. > Based on posting stats (I do not have access to the subscriber list to > see recipient stats) gmail is the single largest provider of mailboxes > for users of this list. > > The argument does still stand that most archivers — including the one > used by Debian for its lists — do better than gmail et al, though. So it > comes down to inconveniencing actual list members vs future archive > readers. If a current member is following a thread on the list, they'll presumably not ignore an unthreaded post merely because it has an extra word in the subject line. As I see it, the problem on this list is that people don't change the subject line often enough when posts diverge from the original subject. Thanks for doing that task here. Cheers, David.
