John
What mail reader are you using ? - looks quite usefiul.

Richard P



Hi John,

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 07:49:42PM -0400, John Hansen wrote:
> I'm one of the people who does this.  Up until your message, I didn't
> realize that this caused a problem.  I guess I was under the impression
> that threads were defined by the subject and if the subject changed, it
> would be interpretted as a new thread.  If this is not the case, what
> field is keyed on to determine whether something is a thread or not?

It is the In-Reply-To field. For this message the field is:
In-Reply-To: <427FF716.1020907@fredonia.edu>

The value of this field is supposed to be a globally unique id generated by
your mail reader. If a mail reader groups messages only by subject then
there is no way to tell who responded to whom (and thus can't display the
messages in a threaded view), the In-Reply-To field gets around this
problem.

Thanks for your interest! :)

Take care, Matthew.





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