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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bug 54474] changing subject does not break thread
From:       Bernhard Reiter <bernhard () intevation ! de>
Date:       2003-02-20 10:30:30
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On Wednesday 19 February 2003 23:39, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 17:35, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:21, Don Sanders wrote:
> So starting over. I would like to implement subject based threading. I
> see this task as consisting of two subtasks.
>
> 1) Breaking threads when messages have been incorrectly threaded due
> to 'abuse' of the reply button.
> 2) Adding to a thread when the mua used to create a message has failed
> to set the reply-id header field correctly.
>
> For the moment I would like to just consider (1).

> The problem can be fixed at receiving time, albeit with a side effect
> on messages where people have manually changed the subject. Now
> overall I expect the benefits of breaking incorrectly congealed
> threads to outweigh any negatives. 

I think that the negatives outweight the positives.

Your solution would be a bug or feature degradation
from my point of view as KMail would not have full threading anymore.

a) You cannot relyable detect if 'abuse' of the reply button has happened.
    You can only guess.

b) Manual changes of the subject as good practice should be encouraged, 
    your change will help to discourages them.

c) It adds more unnecessary complexity to the threading situation.



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