Matthew Miller wrote:
> What these folks seem to do is while reading a piclist message they
> think, "I want to post a new message to piclist". They then hit
> reply, change the subject and their message is displayed in the
> middle of a wholly unrelated thread.

But as you said, they changed the subject.  So they are starting a new
thread.  I don't think I start new threads that way, but I don't see
anything wrong with it either, at least if they completely delete the old
message content.  It's an easy way to make sure the list address is correct.

> I view my mail messages in a threaded mail reader and
> people who don't use their mail reader properly screw-up the view of
> the threads.

Sounds like the fault of your mail reader.  The piclist.com archive seems to
get it mostly right with the same information your mail read has.

I sortof remember there was a proposed standard for adding thread tracking
to the header, but it was never adopted and is widely ignored.  This is
probably because it is unworkable, as you are finding.


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