Re: Threading

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:29:04 Jules Bean wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:32:30PM +0100, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > 
> > Em Ter, 12 Set 2000 18:26:15 Atsuhiko Yamanaka escreveu:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > I have tried a hack for the threading support.
> > > Here is a patch file for balsa-0.9.4.tar.gz .
> > > I hope this patch works correctly, but has not been debuged deeply. 
> > > So please use this patch as your own risk.
> > > I'm happy if I get some feedbacks. 
> > > 
> > 
> > Ok, i applied your patch to current cvs (didn't commit! :)) and
noticed
> > 
> > 1) you only use simple parsing of In-Reply-To, not groking of Subject 
> > (right ?) 
> 
> OTOH, that makes a good default IMO.  It's annoying to have two
> messages with subject: hello threaded together.  If I were writing a
> threader, I think I'd use In-Reply-To as first port of call, and
> References: as a second (in case messages appear out of order).
> 

Yes, but should be possible as a fallback. JWZ's algorithm uses
In-Reply-To, References, and subject, but with some twists on the Subject:
part. i was asking cause i didn't see it getting used and was curious.


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