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Richard Clamp wrote: > If you try and start another thread by finding an old message and > hitting reply I'm going to hunt you down and slap you. Excuse me? As a programmer, I realize the usefulness of In-Reply-To, but replying to an existing message also happens to be my most common way of replying to a list, new topic or old. I expect that I'm not by any means the only person who does that. How would you expect a normal user to know (or care) that the system doesn't know how to deal with that behavior? > Just look what you're doing to the archives: > http://siesta.unixbeard.net/siesta/archive/siesta-dev/ let alone what > you're doing to everyone with an MUA that understands In-Reply-To for > threading. Ugly indeed. At the very least an avviso to new list members to be aware of In-Reply-To would be in order. More useful would be a threading system that didn't get horribly confused by common user behavior. > At the very least you should realise that it makes it hard for me to > help you, because I can't usefully seperate your problems out from each > other. Any help is much appreciated. Hackers are users too; don't expect users to understand software. Software should work for users, not the other way around. I'm sure this has already been discussed a million times in other forums, but shouldn't Subject supersede In-Reply-To for threading? -- BowenThere's stuff above here
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