On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:58:46 -0800, Thomas Witt wrote:
Braden,
Braden McDaniel wrote:
Thomas Witt wrote:
Doug,
can you make it so that these posts all start separate threads?
This *is* a separate thread. (Note the lack of References and In-Reply-To in Doug's posting.)
The problem may be that your mail reader is organizing e-mail by subject.
Yep I know, imprecise wording on my side. Make this popular mail readers don't thread them.
I thought Outlook Express threaded correctly. I know Evolution does. So does Thunderbird, when configured properly. I see you're using Thunderbird. You can configure it to thread properly by setting these options in user.js: user_pref("mail.thread_without_re", false); user_pref("mail.strict_threading", true); You will need to delete your *.msf files so that Thunderbird can regenerate them.
PS: I know this should be fixed on the client side, but unfortunately we are still restricted to living in the real world. Oh well!
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that, by and large, this behavior is deliberate. Apparently the perception on the part of the developers of mail clients that group unrelated messages with matching subjects is that their users demand this functionality. The solution, then, is for users who find this functionality objectionable either to change it or to use a different mail reader that functions as desired. The solution is not for persons to start adding arbitrary noise to the subjects of their e-mail. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden@endoframe.com> <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden@jabber.org>