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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: correct threading (was Re: KMail)
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-09-07 20:25:49
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On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > > E.g. I tend to rename the subject if the topic changes, like in this
> > > mail. But it's still the very same thread. Only the subject is renamed.
> >
> > I agree. Please read my other messages on the subject. What I find
> > problematic is that messages which *should* be in a thead aren't just
> > because they don't have the correct reference.
>
> I don't agree. By changing the subject you start a new thread. This is
> exactly what you _intent_ to do as well. You want to make a clear
> seperation between "correct threading" and the other mails in the "KMail"
> thread. Ergo you have started a new thread. 

Not if the thread was already going and you deceide to rename it.
Not everybody replys to the new subject, old messages are still with
the old subject, etc.

You are long enough around that you probably know what I mean :-)

--Stefan

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