[Virtualacorn-list] VirtualRPC for the Mac - MacPop beta release 1

[Jeremy Nicoll - virtualacorn]

Brian Carroll <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:

> I do have a small question though:  Tim's and Tricia's postings
> are correctly threaded by Pluto to Aaron's initial posting (as I
> expect this posting will be), but his second posting,
> <ce4.3e5a389b.35fce7e0 at aol.com> in reply to Tricia, is not. 
> The same with other replies from Aaron.

Also some of his posts yesterday on the "New version of HostFS" thread
weren't threaded properly.  I've seen the same in the past on personal
emails from him, not being 'proper' replies to the mails I sent. I think his
email client isn't building proper "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" headers.

> For some reasons Windows is not sending the right threading information
> along with Aaron's replies so Reference ID (or whatever it is that MPro
> uses) threading does not work.  But Subject Threading does work.

It's not /Windows/'s fault, but the client's. 

There's no such thing as "Subject Threading" as far as I know; you either
have mails simply sorted by the Subject (and perhaps subsorted by dates
etc), or you have threading.  Threaded displays pay no attention whatsoever
to what's in a mail's subject line - that's the whole point. The references
and in-reply-to headers convey the structure of the conversation, regardless
of what people type in the Subject line.
 
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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.