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

[Indi]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:59:52AM -0700, kashani wrote:
> On 6/4/2011 11:43 AM, Indi wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Whatever you're using is breaking threading in Thunderbird and I can't
> think of anyone else lately I've had the problem with. Also mutt has
> broken threading in the past and even between different versions of
> itself... so calling it a gold standard may be an overstatement.
>

Thanks for reporting on Thunderbird.

When you say "mutt has broken threading in the past", can 
you please be more specific? AFAIK there have been no problems 
like that in a couple of years.

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