Re: [tlug] "Subject:" (The message doesn't need to be in the title....)

[Joshua Eli Bearden <j3b@example.com>]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:20:55AM +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> I nearly always change the title when responding to personal e-mail, but
> in a group situation I've always thought that it was rude to change the
> title of something unless there was a definitive shift away from the
> original topic under discussion.  If people would prefer to read
> different titles for each and every message, I'm  more than happy to
> oblige!  In fact, it's downright fun thinking up titles to what you've
> written and I suppose it's fun to obliterate the opponent's title (but
> why opponent...? Ah... this could be the problem!) with your own.  As
> for "broken MUA's", the reality is that many on the list are using
> GMail, so why not give them some consideration and only change the title
> when the topic has shifted into entirely new directions?

I've given up on using gmail as anything other than an archiving service. 
The subject line problems are particularly bad when conversing with people
in Taiwan who use kimo (aka Yahoo) free email. Their replies use a chinese
character equivalent of RE: which Gmail never recognizes.  Futhermore, 
Gmail doesn't count "(list)Subject" as part of the same thread as 
"(list)Re:Subject". 

I don't know about hotmail but for a freeish alternative I endorse 
freeshell.org.  They offer a free unix shell from which to run mutt.
And mutt handles threads beautifully.

-- 
~Joshua