[KLUG Advocacy] Subject line formatting...

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 19:59, Wesley Leonard wrote:
> Why is it that some mail clients send replies like this:
> [KLUG List Name] Re: Original Subject

That's because some posters strip out the prefix, so the subject sort
works.

> while some send like this:
> Re: [KLUG List Name] Original Subject

Because others don't bother, which results in the subject sort not
working.

> and eventually they start looking like this after they've been passed
> around a while:
> Re: [KLUG List Name] Re: Original Subject

Because there are combinations of posters who do and don't strip out the
original prefix.=20

> This messes things up when I got to sort by subject.  Does anybody know
> if Evolution can work around this?  Is there a way we can configure our
> mailing list software to fix this???

Sort by thread.  It's the only way to guarantee near-proper threading.



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