[Foundation-l] Threading

[Dan Rosenthal]

On May 8, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Casey Brown wrote:

> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If someone will tell me how to get messages to thread if you're in
>> digest mode - I've been making honest efforts to try and get threading
>> - I will happily use whatever technique is suggested. Until then, I
>> apologise for killing threads.
>> 
> 
> Well, first of all, it's best to *not* use digest.  You use gmail, so
> all of the e-mails would be threaded together automatically if you
> turned digest off.
> 
> If you won't turn off digest mode, you should probably copy the
> "Subject" for the message you're replying to and put that as the
> subject for the new e-mail you create.
> 
> -- 
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
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Even that solution sometimes creates new threads, for reasons unbeknownst to me. Turning off Digest mode is the best solution. Digest is intended for people who only intend on reading and replying infrequently; Adam is not that person. With the frequencies of his replies he'd be better suited for individual emails mode.

-Dan