On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 10:30:30 +1000, you wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>Dear Folks –

>Jeff wrote:

>> Also, there are a few posters whose messages aren't threading;

>When I reply, I put in my own Subject line (which is usually a copy-and-paste of the subject I’m replying to, plus “Re:” if required).

>Have done for years. Especially since I get the digest version, and replying doesn’t automatically include the correct Subject.

>Are you saying that this new-fangled mailing list gets confuffled by something I’ve been doing since 1995?

It's not the list, and yes, you've been breaking threads as long as I
can remember - it's only when you get very active that I notice it and
remark on it. Back in the days when the list was on the Engineering
department's servers at the University of Western Ontario, I was doing
the same thing, for the same reason: replying to the digest inherently
breaks threading, because the digest formats don't preserve the
message-IDs of the individual messages, even if the digest is in the
'burstable' format.

The list itself doesn't worry about threading; it's the recipients'
email programs that handle that, based on the message-id and in-reply-to
headers if they conform to standards. Some client programs - thank you,
Microsoft - felt that just smushing together all the messages with the
same subject line (modulo Re:s) as a "conversation", sorted strictly by
date-time within the "conversation", was adequate, and since at the time
they refused to conform to extant standards (and in some things, still
do), some other clients - but not all - have added the user-configurable
option to smush things together in "conversation" format. I don't, and
won't, even though my client supports it, because I have EXTENSIVE
"archives" of the TML on this computer (back to mid-2005), and subject
lines often repeat, sometimes with gaps of YEARS.

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