[ILUG] just not practical

[Nick Murtagh]

On Monday 22 April 2002 17:29, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Using webmail accounts is - I guess - a problem.  Like many others on the
> list I personally have an account on a linux machine which I ssh into
> from anywhere.  I use the mutt mail client which supports proper mailbox
> threading (I believe pine also does).  This moreorless solves that problem
> as all replies are shown directly under the original post.  I can't say
> I've come across a webmail system that did that effectively (actually it
> would appear squirrelmail does, but what do eircom use).  I quite like the
> way it works (for me) now but I can see your problem.

I've seen, both on ILUG and lkml, that threading doesn't work that well. 
I think it's because some MUAs break the threading, or people deliberately
strip out the information needed for the threading to work. Does anyone
know what causes this?