Re: [libreoffice-users] Subject lines - another gripe...

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Dave Sergeant wrote:
> I use Pegasus Mail and view the posts threaded, which by and large 
> works excellently. No need to quote lots in mails as it is very easy to 
> locate the original mails.
>
> But Pegasus Mail truncates subject lines, as displayed in folder views, 
> to 35 characters, something that will be changed in a later version of 
> Pegasus but not for a while yet. Each email on this list is prefixed 
> with [libreoffice-users] together with various [re:], [fwd:] and other 
> things. Net result is that there are very few characters left out of 
> the 35 to accurately thread on, and I get all sorts of totally 
> different things threaded together.
>
> If the list admin changed this to something like [lo-users] or even 
> [lou] it would make threading far more reliable.

Messages are not threaded on subject. For a test reply to a message in a
thread and change the subject line. It should still appear in the
thread. You will occasionally see someone admonished on a list for
replying to a threaded message, changing the subject line, and writing
about an unrelated subject. 

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