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Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block)
From: Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:53:51 -0500
On 1/14/24 1:01 AM, William Herrin wrote:
Respectfully, your MUA is not the only MUA. Others work differently.
Bill, I use multiple MUA's, among them Thunderbird, mutt, kmail and even the zimbra web interface. All follow and implement RFC5822 as it pertains to threading. Note, threading works fine in the list archives too, but only displays two levels deep.
GMail, for example, follows the message IDs as you say but assumes that if you change the subject line in your reply (more than adding "Re:") then you intend to start a new thread from that point in the discussion. It groups messages accordingly.
Gmail is therefore in violation of the RFC5822. It's quite clear how it should work per the RFC appendix.
This is not an unreasonable expectation: if you merely want to continue the current conversation without going off on a new tangent then there's no need for a different subject line.
I think it's quite unreasonable to expect others to compensate for an MUA which doesn't implement 25+ year old standards properly. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net
Current thread:
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block), (continued)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Abraham Y. Chen (Jan 13)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Joel Esler (Jan 13)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 14)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) William Herrin (Jan 13)
- Re: Diversity of MUAs (was Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC ...)) Ellenor Bjornsdottir via NANOG (Jan 13)
- Re: Diversity of MUAs (was Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC ...)) Peter Potvin via NANOG (Jan 13)
- Re: Diversity in threading, Diversity of MUAs (was Re: How threading works John Levine (Jan 14)
- Re: Diversity in threading, Diversity of MUAs (was Re: How threading works William Herrin (Jan 14)
- Re: Diversity in threading, Diversity of MUAs (was Re: How threading works Andy Smith (Jan 14)
- Re: [External] Re: Diversity in threading, Diversity of MUAs (was Re: How threading works Hunter Fuller via NANOG (Jan 15)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Bryan Fields (Jan 14)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Abraham Y. Chen (Jan 14)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Giorgio Bonfiglio via NANOG (Jan 14)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Christopher Hawker (Jan 14)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Tom Beecher (Jan 14)
- Re: How threading works (was Re: Root Cause Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block) Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 14)
- Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block Ryan Hamel (Jan 10)
- Re: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block Tom Beecher (Jan 11)
- Stealthy Overlay Network Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block Abraham Y. Chen (Jan 11)
- Re: Stealthy Overlay Network Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block Ryan Hamel (Jan 11)