Dear Rainer,

The code of Herbert Schildt is more understandable :)

    Aitor.

El 11/12/15 20:13, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???>
escribió:
> It's the default behaviour of certain e-mail clients and was already (at
> that time) directly opposed to established conventions for communicating
> via e-mail. Had Microsoft chosen to split the replied-to text in half
> and position the cursor in the middle of it by default, you'd now be
> rationalizing that.
>
> I've just accidentally read another of Edward's mails which seemed to be
> reply to something I wrote but was actually a comment on something Aitor
> wrote god-knows-where. This suggests that another 'default behaviour' is
> "client can't do threading based on References" and since "it doesn't
> make a difference", people just pick a random text for the list address.
>
> There's a reason why people like to "rant and rave" about how useless/
> overly time consuming e-mail conversation happens to be for them and
> that's their 'default' refusal to format their messages sensibly. I
> decidedly don't want to read all DNG mails of the last - how many days?
> 30 enough? - just to determine what Aitor wrote so that I understand
> Edward's reply to that_without_ already knowing what the referenced
> text was. I specifically gave up on trying to write something sensible
> to the 'realloc' issue because locating the original message about that
> without 'reading the entire threads of the last 16 years' was
> impossible.