Re: Gnome-Bounties - Conversations - Was [Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] proper threading headers]

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 23:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:35 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 14:46 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > /me wondering only.
> > > /me also wishes to know if Evo will only day support or divert somewhat
> > > from the RFC and implement support for Exhange's "Thread-Index" for
> > > threading. Since Evo is being ported to Windows(r) I guess this is a
> > > valid question.
> >
> > I don't really see what being ported to windows has to do with
> > Thread-Index
> >
> > afaik, there's no plans to support Thread-Index altho that doesn't mean
> > it won't happen. I have no idea.
>
> Nothing really, but I'm thinking that by porting Evo to Windows(r) there
> would be a need to also have support for Exchange apart from the current
> connector(?)
>
> And Thread-Index would be one of "Those" things.
>
> Say.. Gmails' conversations are also sort of not in the RFC right?

user interfaces aren't specified in IETF RFCs

>  In
> that case, what's the official stance on Evo for supporting something
> which isn't in the RFC. How particular is teh Evo team on compliance?

as long as it doesn't break the RFCs... I guess it's fine.

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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