Why don't you respect the mail threads?!

[Adrian Stoness]

mua?



On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 02/21/2018 05:26 AM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I have to say that I hate this email thread abuse so much...!
>>
>
> ;-)
>
> Is it so difficult to leave the thread about PICTURES (fill in whatever
>> topic it was about) intact?
>>
>
> I suspect it's either people that don't know they are breaking threading
> or MUAs that behave badly.
>
> I'm on a list where it seems as if a frequent contributer uses an MUA that
> does not send In-Reply-To or References headers at all.  It doesn't even
> send a User-Agent header.  *sigh*
>
> And on the other hand there are those people who seem to be unable to
>> create a prober reply to the list and therefore make threads appear
>> scattered and broken into many many pieces...
>>
>
> I've taken to leveraging Mutt's ability to "link-threads" (&) and
> "break-thread" (#) to ""fix things and make the thread appear like I want
> in Thunderbird.
>
> And yes, I know that I sent this message as a reply to another message.
>>
>
> I think your reply is in direct response to the message that it is
> replying to.  So … I think you're on the lighter side of gray here.  :-)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>