[swift-evolution] [Discussion] mailing list alternative

[Daniel Duan]

Mail.app grouped it in the correct thread (further proves that email clients are awesome 😀). Unfortunately mailman did not do so.


> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:40 PM, James Berry <jberry at rogueorbit.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Duan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> I’ve been wondering about this for a while. What heuristic does mailman use to group emails? It this really impossible even if the title, email body, recipient all fits as if it’s from a existing subscriber?
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> This email is related to the thread only by the subject. How does it work in your email client? I just wrote a new message, no “reply to”, etc.
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>>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com <mailto:xiaodi.wu at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> No, as you define it, they're not mutually exclusive. But maintaining the option to reply to a thread at an indeterminate point in the future when you finally get around to reading _is_ essentially mutually exclusive to not storing a copy of every email sent to the mailing list on your email account somewhere.
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