On 04/06/2008, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:37:11PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
detail. Changing subject lines when you reply doesn't help when you use a client that collapses threads to a single line with just the first subject line (such as gmail) - you can't see that the subject line has changed. Either that, or you break the thread, which is equally annoying.
Gmail is stupid.
Any Mail User Agent that breaks threading on subject line changes is equally stupid.
We've had a *reliable* way to thread email for 2 decades now; it's called In-Reply-To. Works nice.
Yes, and that's how gmail does it, which means changing the subject line usually has no effect (only one subject is shown for the whole thread, and that's the original one). It only has an effect if the mail client sending the email is broken and thus breaks the thread.