On Wednesday 04 October 2006 22:23, "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" 
<vgivanovic@comcast.net> wrote about 'Re: Thread-hijacking (was: Re: 
[gentoo-amd64] How to play flac files?)':
> About, oh, 99.9% of the world's email users wouldn't have any idea of
> what we're talking about. The notion that emails with different subjects
> would be part of the same thread would strike them as, expressing it
> politely, interesting.

Stupidity, ignorance, and/or apathy are not good reasons for breaking 
thoughtful, long-lived, and useful standards and tradition.  Of course, 
they aren't good reasons for keeping them either.

References transfers the intent of the composer [Reply vs. New Mail] in a 
way that a Subject does not.  As I mentioned in my other email, this is a 
desired feature, not a bug.

-- 
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh