[mythtv-users] Forum reminder and feature requests

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue May 13 10:32:26 UTC 2014


On 5/13/2014 4:33 AM, John Veness wrote:
> On 12/05/2014 20:06, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> Every full fledged mail client supports filtering rules, as do many
>> webmail clients.
>>
>> The In-Reply-To field was defined for email in RFC822 way way back in
>> 1982, allowing mail clients to track a conversation across multiple
>> replies, enabling threading, so you can view or ignore entire topics
>> as a whole.  This "next cool super tool" is built-in functionality,
>> rather than the lack there of, and over 30 years old.
>
> The problem with the In-Reply-To field is that, if a user replies to a
> message but changes the subject line because the subject has changed,
> clients will still group the message in the original thread. This way,
> if a user has set a thread to "ignore" or just folded away a thread,
> they won't see the new messages in a different subject. So, for me, I
> prefer the simple solution of sorting or grouping by subject.

If a user replies to a message on a message board, it will show up in 
the same thread.  At least with email, you can manipulate the headers to 
avoid that.


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