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On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:38:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Saturday 04 June 2011 11:59:52 kashani wrote: |
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> > On 6/4/2011 11:43 AM, Indi wrote: |
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> > > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:11:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > >> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:20 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi |
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> > >> did opine |
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> > >> |
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> > >> thusly: |
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> > >>> On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:54:11AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > >>>> I suspected it was whatever device was being used. Sort of like |
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> > >>>> top |
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> > >>>> posting. Some people have to top post because the device they are |
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> > >>>> using won't let them reply any other way. |
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> > >>>> |
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> > >>>> I just wonder if there is some setting that could be changed |
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> > >>>> somewhere |
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> > >>>> to make it work correctly with usenet, or whatever you were using. |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> As soon as Alan said it was me, I thought of the difference between |
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> > >>> usenet and email headers and that mail2news gateway. It actually |
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> > >>> shouldn't be hard to workaround, but having already worked around a |
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> > >>> couple of other issues with it I'm ready to just use the email like |
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> > >>> "normal folks" and be done fooling with it. :) |
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> > >> |
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> > >> FWIW, |
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> > >> |
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> > >> If I set kmail to display just routine ordinary threaded mail there's |
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> > >> a lot less thread breakage. It's not all gone, but it is considerably |
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> > >> less. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Setting kmail to display threads based on "activity" - whatever the |
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> > >> blazes that is - breaks things wholesale. I haven't managed to narrow |
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> > >> it down at all so I have no idea what the algorithm is. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Looks like there's more to this than just usernet<->mail gateway |
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> > >> brokenness |
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> > > |
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> > > I'd switch if *mutt* was breaking threading for other people, but I'm |
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> > > pretty sure it isn't. Now kmail and the other pointy-clicky-html-loving |
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> > > apps, *those* I don't trust... Tried 'em, found 'em wanting. ;) |
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> > > |
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> > > It would be good to hear from more people running different MUAs, |
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> > > but IMO mutt is the Gold Standard and is almost certaily doing what it's |
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> > > supposed to do. |
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> > |
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> > Whatever you're using is breaking threading in Thunderbird and I can't |
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> > think of anyone else lately I've had the problem with. Also mutt has |
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> > broken threading in the past and even between different versions of |
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> > itself... so calling it a gold standard may be an overstatement. |
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> |
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> it is golden brown, runny and smelly. Some call it 'gold'. |
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I hate the way you beat around the bush. Just tell us how you *really* |
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feel, dammit! |
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;) |
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caveat utilitor |
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