[Wine] Empty subject

[Paul Johnson]

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On Wednesday 26 March 2008 02:38:27 pm Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:19 PM, jnewman <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> >  There is nothing wrong with the forum. Subjects are not required for
> > replies. I don't see the issue here. I don't even see why this would
> > upset you.
> >
> >  If you are worried about the mailing list, mail2forum will put in the
> > subject of the thread automatically.
>
> I've been considering suggesting disallowing editing
> the subject in the forum, since forum users seem
> to be editing or clearing it accidentally, leading
> to very confusing split threads on the mailing list.

On the mailing list, threading is not determined by the Subject header, but by 
the References header.

I'm not sure what's causing references to break; sometimes just the last 
reference is missing (causing the message to appear as a reply to the parent 
message of the message it was replying to), sometimes it's entirely missing 
(causing a new thread).  Mailing list posts are threading correctly; posts 
coming off forum2mail are getting mangled.

> My mail client is gmail, and it's usually pretty good about
> threading, but maybe that's an illusion, and all it
> does is match subject lines...

My experience using gmail for domains before is that gmail threads based on 
References and ignores Subject just like it's supposed to; the broken threads 
appear are a case of Garbage In, Garbage Out in this case.

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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