[arch-general] Gnome 3 + KDE 4 are both large disappointments.

[Piyush P Kurur]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 05:57:02PM +0800, Auguste Pop wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 

> by gmail, do you mean the gmail web interface or the gmail mail
> service? 

The threading is done by the mail client and has nothing to do with the
mail protocol SMTP/IMAP etc.

> i am using the web interface, and has the behavior you depicted for
> gmail. if i use a "real" and "proper" mail client, would it be
> better?

So in this case the mistake is that of gmail webclient. Because:

Have a discussion with someone on say "Bugs in the code".  Now if your
mailer justs looks at subjects to thread then two different mails with
subjects "Bugs in the code" (and their subsequent replies) will be
clubbed which is clearly undesirable.

A real mailer a la mutt for example will thread mails based of
message id's and this will solve this otherwise problem of mind
reading. What is assumed is a bit of consideration from the replier. A
new message should be started as a new message not as a reply to an
old message with a changed subject.

Regards

ppk