Fedora Core Support List Unofficial User's Guide (draft 2 - Duncan Lithgow))

[David Hoffman]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:34:10 -0500, Charles E Taylor IV
<tomalek at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, changing the subject lines breaks threading. It makes
> > it look like an entirely new thread. The archives, news readers, and
> > some mail programs (gmail) can sort messages into conversations based
> > on the subject line. If you change the subject line, then the "Solved"
> > portion of the message shows up as another thread.
> 
> Don't most readers sort messages into threads based on References headers
> and not the subject line?

That would depend on what reader you are using. But if we are going to
try to impress on people that they should search the archives before
posting FAQs to the list, shouldn't we try to make the archives as
useful as possible?

The archives are sorted by subject line. Here's a quick example. The
two links below go to two DIFFERENT threads on the same archive site.
The only reason they were listed as different threads is because
"SOLVED" was added to the subject line. These links only lead to a
test message, but there are many other instances that I have found on
the same archive site that do the same thing. (And the same is true
for the redhat archive site).

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110930289600001&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110931389000001&r=1&w=2

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David
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