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Re: everything but mutt sucks (was "Re: alternative threading ...")



On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:07:35AM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> 
> The problem is that there's no way to tell what is a new thread and what
> is just a change of subject.  For instance, that hypothetical mutt would
> proably put this message -- whose Subject: I have deliberately changed --
> on its own instead of in the thread.

Well hopefully not. You kept a portion of the original subject line
and a portion of the original body which is customary and possible to
detect. The sloppy listers almost always remove all of the old subject
line and all of the body.

alex


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