threading broken in thunderbird-3.0b2 ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:24 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:34 -0500, Bradley wrote:
> > The only problem I've had with it is that even though it gets it right
> > most of the time, every now and then it doesn't put a response under
> > the message it should have.
> 
> Check the headers for such messages, the poster probably posted using a
> broken client that destroyed the headers used for threading.  Posting
> clients need to keep, and add to, the references headers, and change the
> in-reply-to header, for threading to work properly.  Screw that up, as
> many crap clients are apt to, and threading is ruined.  Using subject
> lines and dates for message sorting is not threading.

+1

Note that the Yahoo webmail client is one of the worst offenders in this
regard, at least judging by many of the broken threads on this list.

poc