Subject: Re: Email Threading
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/19/2005 11:17:46
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:16:27PM -0400, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> >Please don't just reply to a message on the list. Your EMail program
> >included an "In-Reply-To" header, which my EMail program sorted in
> >with the one you'd grabbed.
> 
> Which is one of the main reasons that threaded MUAs are evil :P.

The 80's are over, getting up to date on technology couldn't hurt...

> 
> Subject-based threads are much more reliable, and you won't get 
> screwed by people using the most convenient method available for 
> posting to lists.

So when you reply to someone via postal mail you just pick up a random letter,
add some comments to it and then mail it out? 

James