Apparently, though unproven, at 17:20 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did opine thusly:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:54:11AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > I suspected it was whatever device was being used. Sort of like top > > posting. Some people have to top post because the device they are using > > won't let them reply any other way. > > > > I just wonder if there is some setting that could be changed somewhere > > to make it work correctly with usenet, or whatever you were using. > > As soon as Alan said it was me, I thought of the difference between > usenet and email headers and that mail2news gateway. It actually > shouldn't be hard to workaround, but having already worked around a > couple of other issues with it I'm ready to just use the email like > "normal folks" and be done fooling with it. :) FWIW, If I set kmail to display just routine ordinary threaded mail there's a lot less thread breakage. It's not all gone, but it is considerably less. Setting kmail to display threads based on "activity" - whatever the blazes that is - breaks things wholesale. I haven't managed to narrow it down at all so I have no idea what the algorithm is. Looks like there's more to this than just usernet<->mail gateway brokenness -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
