Sam,
you should really implement a script in the mailing list redirect engine that edits the emails titles, so that something like
Re: Re: Re: [SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
just becomes
[SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
It would become MUCH more readable when sorting by subject.
CRV?ADER/KY
KnowledgE is PoweRCRV?ADER/KY wrote:
Sam,
you should really implement a script in the mailing list redirect engine that edits the emails titles, so that something likeRe: Re: Re: [SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
just becomes
[SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
It would become MUCH more readable when sorting by subject.
CRV?ADER/KY
KnowledgE is PoweR
RK.
Sam,
you should really implement a script in the mailing list redirect engine that edits the emails titles, so that something likeRe: Re: Re: [SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
just becomes
[SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
It would become MUCH more readable when sorting by subject.
CRV?ADER/KY
KnowledgE is PoweR
- I as seen, it becomes “Re: [SDL] …” and not “[SDL] Re: …”
- “Re: Re: Re: Re:” is a bad idea - it can become waaaaaaaay too
long… Maybe "Re[3]: " or something- I just recently discovered thread view in Mozilla (my mail client),
which just shows the thread tree and not just seperate messages. Then
you don’t even need the “Re:” stuff…- AFAIK, this is a GNU Mailman (http://www.list.org/) mailing list. You
can turn to them with your suggestion.
You didn’t get the problem.
1-2) I KNOW that Re:Re:Re etc is a bad idea, but that’s how some email clients behave when they reply.
3)Good. But does mozilla group up the Re: [SDL] THREADNAME with the Re:Re:Re: etc? Most email clients, and news servers, don’t.
CRV?ADER/KY wrote:
Sam,
you should really implement a script in the mailing list redirect engine that edits the emails titles, so that something likeRe: Re: Re: [SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
just becomes
[SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
It would become MUCH more readable when sorting by subject.
CRV?ADER/KY
KnowledgE is PoweR
- I as seen, it becomes “Re: [SDL] …” and not “[SDL] Re: …”
- “Re: Re: Re: Re:” is a bad idea - it can become waaaaaaaay too
long… Maybe "Re[3]: " or something- I just recently discovered thread view in Mozilla (my mail client),
which just shows the thread tree and not just seperate messages. Then
you don’t even need the “Re:” stuff…- AFAIK, this is a GNU Mailman (http://www.list.org/) mailing list. You
can turn to them with your suggestion.You didn’t get the problem.
1-2) I KNOW that Re:Re:Re etc is a bad idea, but that’s how some email clients behave when they reply.
Oh sorry. I understood it the other way round…
I thought you wanted the script to make “Re: …” to “Re: Re: Re:”…
3)Good. But does mozilla group up the Re: [SDL] THREADNAME with the Re:Re:Re: etc? Most email clients, and news servers, don’t.
Mozilla has the option of just showing all the messages in a TREE, so
you can see which message is a reply to which other which message.
It groups them not by the title, but by a special specific mailing list
header or something.
RK.
| You didn’t get the problem.
| 1-2) I KNOW that Re:Re:Re etc is a bad idea, but that’s how some email clients behave when they reply.
Then you fix the broken email clients, not bodge the mailserver to cope
The best ones are when you get foreign languages sticking localised
versions of “Re:” in.
| 3)Good. But does mozilla group up the Re: [SDL] THREADNAME with the Re:Re:Re: etc? Most email clients, and news servers, don’t.
Mutt shows all my emails in a nice tree, so all replies go under the
first email of the thread. Makes reading big mailing lists a pain-free
experience, just like USENET. This is why it’s mega-important to always
reply to a thread, not just start one with the same subject, and to
never, ever reply to a thread, change the subject line, and start
talking about something different.On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:36:37AM +0200, CRV?ADER/KY wrote:
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[…] This is why it’s mega-important to always
reply to a thread, not just start one with the same subject, and to
never, ever reply to a thread, change the subject line, and start
talking about something different.
This is appearantly not quite clear enough. I saw a whole new thread
start from a reply to a message in my thread. Not nice.
So that’s something that can be improved in the list - making sure
everyone understands what you said.
RK.
Sam,
you should really implement a script in the mailing list redirect engine that edits the emails titles, so that something likeRe: Re: Re: [SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
You must be thinking of my braindead web mail… heh
just becomes
[SDL] Re: THREADTITLE
Good idea.
//David
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`-----> We Make Rheology RealOn Thu, 27/06/2002 23:03:03 , CRV?ADER/KY wrote:
| You didn’t get the problem.
| 1-2) I KNOW that Re:Re:Re etc is a bad idea, but that’s how some email clients behave when they reply.Then you fix the broken email clients, not bodge the mailserver to cope
Good point. I’m sending a bug report to my ISP regarding this web mail “client”.
The best ones are when you get foreign languages sticking localised
versions of “Re:” in.
Yeah, that’s really nice. Anyone has a full collection of them? 
[…]
//David
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| Sweden |
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`-----> We Make Rheology RealOn Fri, 28/06/2002 01:10:59 , James wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:36:37AM +0200, CRV?ADER/KY wrote: