On Jun 15, 2004, at 9:54 AM, tony summerfelt wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:36:08 +0900, you wrote:
>
>> tony summerfelt <snowzone5 / hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> He's probably wondering why your news reader keeps stripping
>> (and/or not adding) the "Re: " from the subject.  It's quite
>> unhelpful.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?

Yes, they do.

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

I only see one 'Re: ' in your subject line (or in any of the subject 
lines here), so I assume that by "piling up" you meant that all 
responding messages have "Re: "'s in them. This is actually the 
standard practice, only the original post is devoid of the "Re: " at 
the beginning.

It can be especially helpful when sometimes posts are not delivered in 
the order they are sent, since you can always easily find the starting 
point of a thread. I have been having to do this lately, since the 
gateway has had some hiccoughs that make sorting by either "date 
received" or "date sent" unreliable.

HTH,
Mark