Re: java serialization alternative

Trying to associate e-mails with each other is a hard problem.  There
are many ways to do it, all unreliable.  So mailers try to make the best
of a bad situation by employing multiple heuristics; the In-Reply-To
header generally takes precedence over subject matching, as does the
References headers.  (Historically, subject matching is among the least
reliable, due to the fact that many mailers truncated subject lines at
80ch and the huge range of subject transformations used to indicate
replying.)

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2008 09:21, Bob Lee wrote:
>> Sounds like a problem with your email client to me.
>
> Hardly. Outlook and Outlook Express are abominations. Threading is _not_
> about subject headers, it's about the message IDs in In-Reply-To
> headers.
>
> Period. Threading according to subject is _wrong_.
>
>
> RRS
>
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