On Sun, May 23, 2004 22:04:53 PM -0400, William M. Quarles (walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote: > >I don't know about mailing list archives disappearing over > >time. The other "weakness", however, is in idiot mail clients and > >misguided users, not in mailing lists. Any decent mail client > >*supports* threading, so it makes possible to "to follow > >discussions in a sensible way". > > > >Ciao, > > Marco F. > > Except the threads are reassembled based on the author leaving the > previous message quoted. Except nothing. Those you mention are not threads. >Newsgroups actually keep track of which message is in reply to which >other message. Again? I wrote "Any decent mail client *supports* threading", where "threading" means *exactly* "keeping track of which message is in reply to which other message". Mailing lists, or email in general, "actually keep track of which message is in reply to which other message". May I suggest you to: read online about the "In-Reply-To:" header go to www.mutt.org and look at some threading screenshots to see what I mean if you can, switch to any email client *with* threading support Note that this has nothing to do with mailing lists anymore. With a decent mail client you will be able to "actually keep track of which message is in reply to which other message" even when you discuss Christmas menu with your family members. Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ They can't stop us... we're on a mission from God! -- The Blues Brothers
