Re: [glob2-devel] folders in gmail (was: still getting same crashes)

[Martin Voelkle]

Hi

On 8/3/07, Joe Wells <address@hidden> wrote:
> I highly recommend anyone using gmail who is getting confused by
> gmail's threading of messages on the glob2-devel mailing list to make
> a glob2-devel label and a filter to (1) automatically apply that label
> to all glob2-devel e-mail and (2) make such e-mail skip the inbox.
> Then you can see all glob2-devel e-mail together and you won't get
> lost.

I've had this exact filter for 2 years.

> "Bradley Arsenault" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 8/2/07, Joe Wells <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >     What mail reader are you using?  Maybe it has a configuration option
> >     to make it handle replies correctly?
> >
> > Problem is that your replying to the topic and changing the subject with 
> > this
> > (was: whatever) stuff, or here with changing the subject completely, but 
> > still
> > technically being a reply to the same email. It makes things more difficult 
> > us.
>
> E-mail which is a reply to another e-mail should be treated as a
> reply.  E-mail that is not a reply should not be treated as a reply.
> There are Internet standards documents that specify how this should be
> done with the "References" and "In-Reply-To" e-mail headers.  The
> "Subject" header is _not_ supposed to be used for figuring out whether
> a message is a reply.  The "Subject" header of an e-mail message
> should reflect its content; if the subject of a reply is different
> from the subject of the message it is replying to, then the two
> messages should not have the same subject.
>
> I'm sorry that gmail sucks at dealing with things that are trivial for
> other mail readers.

I have to agree that gmail sucks with mail standards.

But this mailing list is not perfect:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Martin