[Coco] Message Threading

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:01:35AM -0700, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> > 
> > On Aug 9, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Mark D. Overholser <marko555.os2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I am seeing a similar Issue, but see the Thread, "[Coco] Booting OS9 on my CoCo 3"  in Four Threads, with the Head starting under "[Coco] GCC6809 cross compiler, assembler & linker"...
> 
> 
> I can neither confirm nor deny whether it's actually in four
> threads instead of three on my machine. I didn't look at that cross
> compiler thread, so I don't know whether the Booting thread started
> under there on my system, too. Well, I guess I'm not the only one
> who is seeing threads broken up in a way which is annoying, but not
> necessarily broken.

I discussed this in an earlier reply...

> I'd also like to disclose that when I clicked "reply", the To
> field started out addressed to the previous sender rather than the
> list... and in my pre-caffeinated state, I almost made things worse
> by redirecting my reply to the CCtalk list instead of the CoCo list! :O

So, there isn't really anything special about a mailing list message
versus a personal email message. However, there are some extra mail
headers that are conventionally applied by mailing lists. So, your
MUA may be identifying some of those headers and figuring-out that
certain message came from a mailing list. Also, mailing lists can do
weird things like changing the From: header, adding Reply-To (or not),
etc. Many MUAs similarly have configuration options that let the user
identify mailing list addresses, alter the response to a Reply-To:
header, etc. It's all quite fascinating (for some definition of
fascinating), but not really related to the complaint about thread
hijacking that started this thread.

John
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