Re: Arranging icons on desktop

[Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 11:04 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On Monday 15 September 2008 23:02:47 Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 
> > Actually, it's for compatibility with Mozilla--the behavior of which is
> > based on this broken-by-design document:
> >
> >    http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
> 
> If you read it carefully, it explains exactly what and WHY the original mozilla 
> (we're talking about Netscape version 3) used to do to thread messages. The 
> newer mozilla *stopped* doing it that way, hence Jamie's rant. Please could you 
> explain why you consider this "broken" ...?

Considering the Subject at all is broken.  With any significant volume
of mail you invariably wind up with completely unrelated messages that
happen, by coincidence, to have identical subjects.  Treating such
messages as part of the same thread is not, IMO, acceptable behavior.

Whatever its deviations from this algorithm, Thunderbird is still broken
in this respect in its default configuration.  Fortunately there are
some (relatively well hidden) options you can change to correct its
behavior.

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