[GRASS-dev] Email subject standards

[Hamish]

Vaclav wrote:
> please note that changing subject when you reply an
> email breaks the email thread, so then there
> are two threads instead of one.
>
> Even adding some words to the subject line is
> usually considered as a change, so it
> creates a new thread.

Hi,

it depends on your software, many email clients and online archives know about & use email header lines to signify the relationships regardless of the subject line. Other email clients ignore all that and simply go by the strict subject line or their own fuzzy intelligence sorting method (eg gmail?).

see for example 

http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/message-threading.html


regards,
Hamish