[Elecraft] [META] Nabble threads?

[David Woolley (E.L)]

Rick Kunath wrote:
> David Woolley wrote:
> 
>> Outlook is possibly a particular problem, as it can thread Usenet but 
>> not email.
> 
> Outlook can thread email messages. It isn't set to do that by default 
> though. And most people don't have it set that way.

Many people use back versions of Outlook because it costs money.  The 
version my office uses can group by subject, but can only properly 
thread Usenet, not email.

> Another way message threading gets messed up is folks using the digest 
> method of getting the list. Basically, if you are on digest and you 
> reply, you are breaking the thread as your digest message is it's own 

Providing you take the right form of digest, this is not true. 
Admittedly most users of the digest probably don't know how to use it 
properly.  Actually Outlook handles this better than Thunderbird, 
although thunderbird still threads properly.

The digests I receive are in MIME multipart/digest format, and you can 
extract the individual articles and reply to them, in which case they do 
thread properly.  You only get a problem if people try to reply to the 
whole digest, rather than an individual message.



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