Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

[Indi]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:11:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:20 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did opine
> thusly:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:54:11AM -0500, Dale wrote:
> > > I suspected it was whatever device was being used.  Sort of like top
> > > posting.  Some people have to top post because the device they are using
> > > won't let them reply any other way.
> > >
> > > I just wonder if there is some setting that could be changed somewhere
> > > to make it work correctly with usenet, or whatever you were using.
> >
> > As soon as Alan said it was me, I thought of the difference between
> > usenet and email headers and that mail2news gateway. It actually
> > shouldn't be hard to workaround, but having already worked around a
> > couple of other issues with it I'm ready to just use the email like
> > "normal folks" and be done fooling with it. :)
>
> FWIW,
>
> If I set kmail to display just routine ordinary threaded mail there's a lot
> less thread breakage. It's not all gone, but it is considerably less.
>
> Setting kmail to display threads based on "activity" - whatever the blazes
> that is - breaks things wholesale. I haven't managed to narrow it down at all
> so I have no idea what the algorithm is.
>
> Looks like there's more to this than just usernet<->mail gateway brokenness
>

I'd switch if *mutt* was breaking threading for other people, but I'm
pretty sure it isn't. Now kmail and the other pointy-clicky-html-loving
apps, *those* I don't trust...  Tried 'em, found 'em wanting. ;)

It would be good to hear from more people running different MUAs, 
but IMO mutt is the Gold Standard and is almost certaily doing what it's
supposed to do. 

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