[NTLUG:Discuss] Why do people have to change the subject on a thread reply? -- WAS: Sun ships single Opteron with AGPx8 and 4 PCI-X busses! -- WAS: HDTV card for Linux

[Pat Regan]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, brad angelcyk wrote:

> "WAS: HDTV card for Linux"
>
> Thank you for breaking the message thread display in Gmail... I was
> very easily ignoring a thread that I had no interest in until you felt
> the need to change the subject.

It threaded just fine for me.  A mail client isn't supposed to thread by
subject, I believe it should be using the In-Reply-To field in the header.

I checked Pine and Mutt, and they both seemed to do a good job sorting by
thread.

Pat