[Tutor] syntax error

[Devin Jeanpierre]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> oh - and always provide a specific meaningful subject
>>
>>
>> My client has no idea what thread this post came from.
>>
>> Is it supposed to?
>
>
>
> What's your client? I'm using Thunderbird, and it too doesn't have any idea.

The gmail web interface.

> I see that Bob's email does have an In-Reply-To header:
>
> In-Reply-To:
> <CAM9vinNG0z-7zBgyiaOrL0d+n6bNStB3_RSbbAgEoe0UfNc3Vg at mail.gmail.com>
>
> and if I look at the email which started this thread, Keitaro Kaoru's email
> with no subject line, I see it has the same message ID:
>
> Message-ID:
> <CAM9vinNG0z-7zBgyiaOrL0d+n6bNStB3_RSbbAgEoe0UfNc3Vg at mail.gmail.com>
>
>
> so my guess is that Thunderbird is just stupid.

Welp. Not much I can do here. I should probably switch to a desktop
client at some point.

Thanks for the detective work.

-- Devin