tony summerfelt <snowzone5 / hotmail.com> writes:

> as an OT aside: i'm not using a newsreader, i'm on the mailing
> list, so it would be my email client doing that (most can be
> set to strip re:'s to avoid them piling up.

Okay, I don't know alot about Windows email clients -- I was
under the impression that Forte Agent was a news reader.  I see
now that it also supports mail as well...

> someone should correct me if i'm wrong, but don't all
> relatively compliant newsreaders and and clients go by a
> message id for threading and NOT the subject line?

Heh, well...assuming your client supports message threading
(which mine does, as does yours...).  I suspect it just makes it
confusing for those who use clients which don't thread
messages. (i.e. Outlook, Outlook Express)

> subject kept intact for example of why i strip them.

I guess I'm used to having a sane client which only adds the
"Re: " if it doesn't already exist.

-- 
Josh Huber