On Saturday 04 June 2011 11:59:52 kashani wrote: > On 6/4/2011 11:43 AM, Indi wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:11:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> 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 > > > > I'd switch if *mutt* was breaking threading for other people, but I'm > > pretty sure it isn't. Now kmail and the other pointy-clicky-html-loving > > apps, *those* I don't trust... Tried 'em, found 'em wanting. ;) > > > > It would be good to hear from more people running different MUAs, > > but IMO mutt is the Gold Standard and is almost certaily doing what it's > > supposed to do. > > Whatever you're using is breaking threading in Thunderbird and I can't > think of anyone else lately I've had the problem with. Also mutt has > broken threading in the past and even between different versions of > itself... so calling it a gold standard may be an overstatement.
it is golden brown, runny and smelly. Some call it 'gold'. -- #163933
