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From: Richard Cleaveland <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Threading on the LIst - was: Place list questions
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:50:32 -0400
References: <43171FC0.1010900@cleaveland.info> <20059294218.923046@Terry3> <6.2.1.2.0.20050912181533.03698208@incoming.verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050912181533.03698208@incoming.verizon.net>


Walt wrote:
> At 09:42 AM 9/2/2005, Terry Reigel wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> 1. Better e-mail clients include in the header of replies a coded
>> reference to the message being replied to. Thus, if a user of such a
>> client, when posting a message on a new topic, relies to a previous
>> message instead of creating a new message from scratch, their message
>> will include the reference to the previous message.
>>
>> 2. Better e-mail clients offer to create threaded display of related
>> messages. The one's I've seen do this in two ways. First, they use the
>> codes embedded in the messages, as described above, when they exist.
>> Then, they try to match based on the subject line. Thus, users of such
>> clients see messages on new topics created as described above as
>> continuation of the previous thread.
>
>
>
> Terry
>
> Which "better e-mail client" are you using and what other ones occur to
> you off the top of your head?
>
Not Terry, but I use Thunderbird and have used Outlook Express; both thread.

Dick

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