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

Auguste Pop auguste at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 08:51:25 EDT 2011


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Piyush P Kurur <ppk at cse.iitk.ac.in> wrote:
> 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
>

thank you for the explanation. i noticed some inconsistency between my
mail inbox and the mailing list's archive. i now know the reason. :-D


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