Tony Finch wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, W B Hacker wrote:
>
>>Tony Finch wrote:
>>
>>>Boggle! How do you expect a thread-aware MUA to deal with your
>>>messages sensibly when they have no thread information at all? Let
>>>alone "less" thread-aware MUAs.
>>
>>As in the screenshot: http://conducive.org/threading.tiff
>
>
> There's no threading there. That's just sorting by subject with some bogus
> scaffolding on the left-hand-side.
Not what is set in Mozilla, nor does it look the same if I DO sort on subkect.
...but never mind.
> Note that you don't have more than one
> level of nesting,
- for which I am grateful...
> as (for example) the pipermail archive does.
> See how Pine shows it, with nesting: http://dotat.at/graphics/pine.png
> In particular see how the "ACL to reject spam" and MailScanner threads
> have a structure that your screenshot doesn't show, and how the structure
> of various threads has been flattened by your replies.
True - but even with a 1400-wide screen, that is what I would want anyway.
Sub-branching ad infinitum may be technically correct, and certinly useful in an
environment where side-issues fell into clear categories, (Groklaw, maybe?) but
for most technical support lists the differentiation is not worth the cost of
the back-and-fill navigation.
*snip*
>
> References and In-Reply-To.
>
> Tony.
Thanks. Working on that now.
Bill