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[Terry Reedy]

On 5/18/2010 7:27 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 05:34 PM, cjw wrote:
>> It seems that messages are coming from a number of sources, such as
>> gmane and google groups.
>>
>> The problem is that many messages seem to get unlinked from their
>> threads.
>>
>> I use Thunderbird 3.0.5 and wonder whether the problem lies with the
>> merge process, the server or my reader.
>
> While others have told you about using gmane or other sources (direct
> email, etc), I haven't seen anything fly by regarding the "unlinked from
> their threads" portion of your question. Thunderbird 2.0 -> 3.0 changed
> the default value for mail.strict_threading from False to True. Pulling
> up the config editor (essentially the about:config, buried in the
> options->advanced stuff, I think; or perhaps I have the "about:config"
> plugin to do that) allows you to toggle this value back to "True". This
> setting controls whether threads are defined *only* by the mail header
> (strict=True), or whether TB also tries to guess based on the Subject
> header (strict=False).

I solved the problem for me, well enough, by sorting threads by subject 
instead of 'Date' (actually, time) so that disconnect threads sort 
together anyway.