On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:03:20AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> ...
> If the software that formulates the message's headers doesn't respect
> the standard and include proper Message-Id and In-Reply-To headers,
> something as simple as changing the subject (as Peter did in his
> latest reply) will break threading (fallback threading basedon the
> Subject header, i.e.). If, on the other hand, the mail software _does_
> support the standard, changing the Subject will _not_ break threading.
>
> Surely as software professionals we can agree that standards are
> generally a good thing and that this standard is no exception to that
> rule. Shouldn't we thus conclude that using non-conformant software is
> to be strongly discouraged? (01)
Sounds right to me. Is there a list of conformant/nonconformant clients
somewhere, or a simple way to tell one from the other? I mostly use
mutt, which I would bet big money is comformant, and OS X's Mail.app,
which I'd *suspect* is conformant, but I just don't know. (02)
> Definitely a pet peeve of mine... (03)
No kidding? :-) (04)
-chris (05)
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