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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bug 54474] changing subject does not break thread
From:       David Bishop <tech () bishop ! dhs ! org>
Date:       2003-02-15 19:07:51
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On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:14 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> * Don Sanders -- Saturday 15 February 2003 18:10:
> > Inspecting the bodies of mails during threading time would require
> > calling getMsg on those mails and hence be slow.
>
> The most efficient (and IMHO acceptable) thing would be to only check
> for "\bRe:\s" in the subject. Every correctly changed subject has to
> contain Re:, either at the beginning or in a "(was: Re: old subject)".
> Otherwise chances are very high that a message doesn't belong to a given
> thread. A message box that pops up if someone hit reply and has no
> "Re:" in the subject, would be annoying enough for newbies to learn
> not to misuse the reply function.  ;-).

See attached for a fairly common usage that doesn't fit into that pattern.  I 
see this at least once or twice a week.

D.A.Bishop
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