Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi all, > >> I have no idea how your email system would figure out just what mail Tim >> had been replying to. The information is just not there in the headers. > > Apple Mail uses the Subject (as text), and I imagine there are other > applications that do the same.
Oh, short of other information, my mailing system groups together articles with a common subject line in chronological order. Sure. But it has no clue who replied to whom, and it can't fetch related mails from the server without reading a whole bunch of messages with various subjects based on their chronological order alone and then trying to sort based on subject and chronology afterwards. > This of course leads to any number of frustrations, including "re: re: > test" not being threaded with "re: test", and mail from completely > different conversations (with the same subject line) being threaded > together. Well yes, a thread is logically a _tree_. A chronological sort only renders a list, and that's just not useful for tracking a particular conversation to its start. There may be mailing systems that actually can't do better than that anyway, but most of them should preserve more from the threading. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
