[ale] OT (slightly): How do you read the ale mailing list?

[Pat Regan]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 09:02:08 -0400
"Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> In Outlook you can sort by subject and then select all the messages
> with the same subject and delete them.   Of course when people change
> the subject this might not work but then again a changed subject is
> often indication that a sub-thread has been spawned from the original.

If your mail client is keeping track of threads by subject then it is
just plain broken.  There is a header that keeps track of this sort of
thing.

I know Outlook used to be capable of making use of that header, but it
also used to do a pretty poor job of it...

Pat