Re: Just to prove my point (used to be -> Re: [PHP] People's misbehavior on the list)

Jim Lucas wrote:

PHP Developer wrote:

some people don't remove the "Re:" prefix when answering to the questions It opens a new topic on the list and that's not appropriate . Thank ya

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Clients that rely on the subject to determine if it a new thread are broken. In fact, if you looked the headers of your email you will see a line like this message-id: <757360.51350.qm@web57910.mail.re3.yahoo.com> my client takes that line and make a reference to it like this. references: <757360.51350.qm@web57910.mail.re3.yahoo.com> it will also create a new message-id: line. something like this. message-id: <d8269d910705181310k1f1416efq8ef7b77e793d77b6@mail.gmail.com> if anybody replies to my message, the process is repeated. Real, non-broken, email clients rely on the above lines to determine how messages belong to one another. Again, it has nothing to do with the subject line. Look at the subject line of this message.

As always it's not quite that simple. The problem is that there are no hard and fast rules regarding mail headers, so when threading you can't guarantee anything. The "standard", or accepted reference algorithm for threading emails can be found at http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html and is, I believe, still used in a large number of clients including Thunderbird. Gmail almost certainly uses their own concoction, but it probably follows similar rules. -Stut