[swift-evolution] [Discussion] mailing list alternative

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon Feb 06 2017, Jacob Bandes-Storch <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Gmail does the same; I wonder if it's a Mailman feature/bug that triggers
> the splitting.

Many mail clients don't properly use the References: header to assemble
threads, instead using subject lines.  I use Gnus and don't see epic
threads getting split up, FWIW.

> 
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:59 PM Charles Srstka via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>> Oh, Mail messes up the grouping of them quite a lot in my experience.
>> Whenever we get one of those epic, super controversial threads with tons of
>> posts in them, it’s almost guaranteed to split into two or three parallel
>> threads, on my machine anyway.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 6:45 PM, Daniel Duan via swift-evolution <
>> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>
>> Mail.app grouped it in the correct thread (further proves that email
>> clients are awesome 😀). Unfortunately mailman did not do so.
>>
>> <Screen Shot 2017-02-06 at 4.44.42 PM.png>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:40 PM, James Berry <jberry at rogueorbit.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Duan via swift-evolution <
>> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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