Is there a way to aid gmail in making threads? We are currently using same Subjects to do this, but that really uglyfies the subject a lot.
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There are a couple of mail headers that other mail clients use to help threading - not sure if gmail supports them. The first is the standard RFC-822 "In-Reply-To: <messageid>", and the second is the non-standard (stolen from Usenet) "References: <messageid>,<messageid>,...".
Paul Tomblin
2008-12-16 19:51:18
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Maybe somewhat offtopic, but I've never understood these mailing-list-threads. Even when published on the internet they are damn hard to reuse, because mostly the emails aren't grouped together and ordered correctly. With todays advances in web technologies, if you have a discussion, why don't you use an internet forum?
Of course, I don't mean this for private forth-and-back email session between two or three people. That's different. But in such cases there really isn't any need for "threads" either.
So... am I totally missing out on something, or are people just sticking to the old-fashioned mailing lists because they're used to doing that for the past 20 years?
Vilx-
2008-12-16 20:11:26
Or maybe they're sticking with email mailing lists because they don't want to have to check 47 different web sites with 47 different user interfaces every time they're curious if there is a new message. Mailing lists work, and work well, which is more than I can say for most web fora.
Paul Tomblin
2008-12-16 20:27:23
If they use 47 forums, then someething is by definition not right. :) But, anyway, that's what RSS and notifications-by-email are for, no?
Vilx-
2008-12-16 20:57:51
So you're saying you'd rather get an email saying "somebody responded to your post" and a link to click on than actually getting the response? No accounting for taste, I guess.
Paul Tomblin
2008-12-17 14:44:32