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On Wednesday 04 October 2006 11:25, "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" |
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<vgivanovic@×××××××.net> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to play flac |
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files?': |
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> Agreed, but my mail reader (Evolution) shows his subject to be "How to |
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> play flac files?" which is a new subject. My mail reader shows Patric's |
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> original email to be a sub-thread of a previous email with a different |
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> subject, but I would say that this is a bug in Evolution, not that |
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> hijacking has occurred. |
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That's the very *definition* of highjacking. There's a specific header |
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('References', IIRC) that is used to indicate what thread a message is |
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part of. This is for various reasons, but mostly because matching subject |
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doesn't give you full information about the tree structure of the thread, |
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and attempting to match quoted text can lead to madness. |
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While some mail clients provide subject based threading, it is not the |
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correct way to indicate a message is threaded. Subject-based threading is |
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generally only useful to work around mail clients that do not properly add |
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a 'References' header (or whatever header you are supposed to use, I don't |
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remember, ATM). |
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-- |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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