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[Derek Broughton]

Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:39:37 +0100
> Adam McGreggor <lists at amyl.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:41:10AM +0200, Gerald Dachs wrote:
>> > Quoting Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
>> > 
>> > > John Hubbard wrote:
>> > >> Somewhere on the page that you used to subscribe to the list, there
>> > >> was a box to check to choose if you wanted to receive your own
>> > >> messages. Did you check that box?
>> > >
>> > > Even if the box is checked, Gmail users don't see their own posts.
>> > > That is a Gmail feature which comes up on this list quite frequently.
>> > 
>> > Feature?
>> 
>> Aye:
>> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6588&topic=13272
> 
> Gmail is saving you trouble by breaking the threading in your
> mailbox.... riiiiiiiight....
> 
> Interesting spin to call this a "feature" ...

Gmail shouldn't actually break threading.  Gmail itself doesn't care about
threading, but seems to properly maintain the references so that threads
are maintained.  It simply treats "sent" mail as "read", and when a mail
comes back from a list with the same message-id as a message anywhere in
your gmail mailbox, it is ignored.  I find it somewhat more than moderately
annoying, but not a real problem.
-- 
derek