Why I see certain messages from mailing list not ordered

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon Jul 10 14:23:19 UTC 2006


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Joao Batista Gomes de Freitas wrote:
>> And about non-related messages appearing in a thread, this often
>> happens when a subscriber creates a new thread by replying to an
>> existing one and changing the subject of the message. Some people
>> do this to avoid
> Well, I do this way but it is because I receive the list as a
> digest.  Is there a better way to do it ?
[...]
>> Totally agree. However, I've noticed that the people who do this do
>> not use the "order by thread" feature of their e-mail client and
>> have no idea of this side effect of their action. They end up
>> learning it the hard way, if they're lucky :)
> Would this work by digest readers ???

I believe if you set your list preferences to send you the MIME
instead of the plain text digests that you'll be better able to hit
reply to the individual messages in each digest and have evolution do
the right thing regarding threading.

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