On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:15 +0000, Jose wrote:

I've also long used a string followed by a colon in the subject line in
various situations (ie. "Q:") and never perceived a problem.

The problem would be percieved by others.

It would be perceived by me if anyone had replied to such a message, if I
followed the "bug" explanation correctly. More, USENET being what it is,
someone would have complained about it in the years I've been doing this.



BTW, whats' wrong with displayed threading by threads instead of
subject?

Nothing, but there's something wrong with having to.

Why? What's wrong with something being required to be done "the right
way" for that something to work properly?

Sorting gets screwed
up in some readers when one must sort by threads if one is only viewing
unread messages.

How? I see no such artifact of "screwed up" sorting, and I've been
sorting by thread for quite a while.

- Andrew