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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bug 54474] changing subject does not break thread
From:       Bernhard Reiter <bernhard () intevation ! de>
Date:       2003-02-17 10:39:46
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On Friday 14 February 2003 22:03, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Friday 14 February 2003 13:24, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:31, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 04:56, Don Sanders wrote:
> > > > Maybe a possible compromise.
> > > >
> > > > If the subject has been changed and stripped of all reply
> > > > prefixes
> > >
> > > and if the "reply" doesn't contain any quoted text
> > >
> > > > then the thread is broken.
> > >
> > > I think if all of the aforementioned conditions are met then we can
> > > safely assume that the "reply" is actually the start of a new
> > > thread.
> >
> > I tend to disagree.
> > AFAIK there were quite some discussions about this when I still read
> > the newsgroups about newsreaders
> > where the same question is even more important.
> >
> > A subject can be changed often in a threat especially
> > when it splits into subthreads.
>
> Granted. But wouldn't a reply include at least some quoted text (even if
> it's a new subthread)?

Not necessarily. 
E.g. sometimes I rephrase the original content myself to be shorter.

On the other hand, I believe that the (somewhereI proposes rules
would be too "magic" for the users.

In news readers you would have a "followup" and "new post" 
and "reply" functions. Follow goes to the list, new post strips the reference headers
and reply goes to the author per personal mail.


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