testing threading - please ignore

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:04:40PM -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:23:28 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is because the tool handling the threading is using the References:
> > headers in the email to do it, rather than the naive Subject:-based
> > method used by the MARC-archives.
> > 
> 
> That's probably what gmail is basing theirs on as well.
> 
> Looking at this thread and then the "changed" one... shows up as two
> different threads in gmail.

Then gmail is broken, as I have suspected. I wonder what else is
broken about it? No, don't answer, I won't use gmail unless they fix
threading.

I use mutt, and it handles the threading correctly. I did not see a
new thread when the subject changed. But then the authors of mutt go
out of their way to be compliant with the relevant RFCs.

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