Re: [tlug] OT Thread Hijacking

[Martin Killmann <martin@example.com>]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:01:19 +0000 
Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:55:36 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
> <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > Gmail doesn't thread.  It has "conversations".  I'm not sure what the
> > semantics of "conversation" is, precisely, but it's clearly not quite
> > the same as threading, although in many cases you wouldn't be able to
> > tell the difference.
> 
> GMail relies entirely on the Subject: header (modulo the usual add-ons like
> Re: and Fw:) to group messages together in conversations, and on the
> timestamp in order to order them.

Since we're at it, is there a Web mail service that handles proper
threading and makes use of the In-Reply-To: header?

I assume such a service would be pretty popular with power users.

Martin