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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 did opine |
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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 top |
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>>>> posting. Some people have to top post because the device they are using |
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>>>> won't let them reply any other way. |
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>>>> I just wonder if there is some setting that could be changed 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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>> FWIW, |
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>> If I set kmail to display just routine ordinary threaded mail there's a lot |
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>> less thread breakage. It's not all gone, but it is considerably less. |
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>> Setting kmail to display threads based on "activity" - whatever the blazes |
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>> that is - breaks things wholesale. I haven't managed to narrow it down at all |
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>> so I have no idea what the algorithm is. |
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>> Looks like there's more to this than just usernet<->mail gateway brokenness |
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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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> 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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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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