On 22Dec2015 10:14, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:44 am, Jon Ribbens wrote about mail clients that use
the Subject line to thread messages:
Also: Thunderbird, The Bat!, Eudora, Gnus, Outlook, Outlook Express,
Pegasus Mail, Pine, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail,
Evolution, SquirrelMail, KMail, Windows Mail, etc.
I understand that at least some of those will only use the Subject as a
fallback when other threading information is not available. That's a
reasonable strategy to take.
As for mail clients that *always* and *exclusively* use the subject line to
implement threading, they are horrifically broken.
A big +1 here. Even as big as +2.
It is completely
unreasonable to insist that people using non-broken tools must change their
habits to support those with completely broken tools.
So as far as I am concerned, if changes of subject line breaks threading for
you, so sad, too bad. Go without threading or use a better mail client.
[...snip...]
Besides, changing the Subject line is _supposed_ to break the threading in
these contexts: such clients clearly consider the discussion topic (subject) as
sufficient definition of a thread, and changing the topic should imply a new
thread to such simplistic clients.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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