| Re: [GMCnet] 4.8 MPG [message #324240 is a reply to message #324237] |
Fri, 22 September 2017 19:18   |
Ronald Pottol
Messages: 505
Registered: September 2012
Location: Redwood City, California
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Broken, non standards compliant email clients. JWZ has some nice rants on
the subject, he was the lead for the Netscape mail and news clients
versions 1-3 here he is on threading https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
which is where our problem lies.
On Sep 22, 2017 16:07, "Matt Colie" wrote:
> Kingsley Coach wrote on Fri, 22 September 2017 17:51
>> Can someone tell me how in He-double hockey sticks, we have 7 different
> conversations all with the subject line 4.8 MPG ???
>>
>> Mike in NS
>> --
>> Michael Beaton
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>
> Wow Mike,
>
> That is an easy one.
> As the forum is a adjunct to the original mailing list, there are some
> issues. One of them is that if an e-mail user does not reply directly, then
> the code package assumes it is a new topic, and it is posted as such.
> Some people do read this as email, and if they have a properly configured
> mail
> client, it will put all of the identical topics in the same thread. When
> I go back to read this all in the digest that I use, they will all be
> grouped together. The problem is that they will be sorted by time, so if
> a reply does not quote the message it is replying to, there may be no chance
> to effectively interpret that response. This is why I run both.
>
> Matt
> --
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