Can these email "Subject" headers be avoided?

May 20, 2008
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Can email subject headers like this one (below) be avoided? They screw up threading.

Subject: RE: [Support-t-114] Re: @eval question
 
On 2008-06-03 08:50, vefatica wrote:

> Can email subject headers like this one (below) be avoided? They screw up threading.
>
> Subject: RE: [Support-t-114] Re: @eval question

That's what one gets for adding those ridiculous [FOO] prefixes. :)

Anyway, non-broken email clients should thread on the References:
header, NOT on the Subject field, unless there's no other information
available.
 
On 03/06/2008, vefatica <> wrote:

> Can email subject headers like this one (below) be avoided? They screw up
> threading.

It'd be nice if the "to" header was the list rather than me, as well.
It's a cosmetic thing, as I'm filtering on the from field, but it's
odd not seeing "To: list_name" in my client. After all, it's a list
message, not a personal one.

Paul.
 
p.f.moore wrote:

> On 03/06/2008, vefatica <> wrote:
>
> Quote:
> > Can email subject headers like this one (below) be avoided? They screw up
> > threading.
>
> It'd be nice if the "to" header was the list rather than me, as well.
> It's a cosmetic thing, as I'm filtering on the from field, but it's
> odd not seeing "To: list_name" in my client. After all, it's a list
> message, not a personal one.

That cannot be changed either.

The only thing I can change is the "from" address (to make everything
come from the same address) -- but that would make it hard to determine
from which forum the message had been sent.

Rex Conn
JP Software
 
gmail threads these just fine; perhaps you could set up an address for
these messages. At work I am now using Outlook but am very happy to
get jp email through gmail, especially now that nntp is gone

On 6/2/08, vefatica <> wrote:

> Can email subject headers like this one (below) be avoided? They screw up
> threading.
>
> Subject: RE: [Support-t-114] Re: @eval question
>
>


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