tlug: mail thread rant

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

This is an honest question, not a flame ...

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne <j-byrne@example.com> writes:

    jb> If you have a new topic, please start a new fscking thread, or
    jb> at least hack out the ref. header too, rather than just
    jb> replying and changing the subject line.  Broken threading
    jb> hoses both threaded mail readers (there is a certain message
    jb> regarding sendmail that is nested comfortably far down the
    jb> "fish" thread), but also our web-based archive, which threads
    jb> messages.

I don't see this as broken from the reader's point of view, as long as
you can prune the sub-thread starting at that point.  (It's broken from
the sender's point of view, since people who have killed that thread
but might know something useful won't see the thread.)

I find it far more annoying when there isn't a thread where there
should be one.  (In fact, this issue just doesn't bother me at all.)
Am I missing something?

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