Re: Super Nested Threads

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels cistron nl>]

On 2004.11.23 01:29, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 11/22/2004 07:00:36 AM, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> [ snip ]
> > What some clients and web forums do is that after the first
> > level of indenting, a message doesn't indent if it has only
> > one reply.
> > 
> > Like
> > 
> >   1 message
> >   2   reply to 1
> >   3     reply to 2
> >   4       reply to 3
> >   5       reply to 4
> >   6     reply to 2
> >   7       reply to 6
> >   8       reply to 7
> >   9     reply to 2
> > 
> > Mike.
>
> Hi Mike!
>
> Thanks for pointing that out--I have a version working, and it  
> controls thread-explosion pretty well[1].  I'm attaching a patch  
> for anyone who'd like to try it.
>
> We'd want to leave JWZ threading as is, for the purists (well, it  
> isn't really JWZ's proposal, but it's close), so I guess we'd  
> need to add a threading option--perhaps "JWZ (flatter)"?

Well the thread sorting method is still JWZ, only the way you
display it is a bit more "optimized", right ? (I haven't tried
it yet btw, will do so later)

> While we're on the topic--how about "JWZ (references only)" for a  
> version that leaves out the lunatic "gathering by subject"?  I'm  
> for ever losing messages with subjects like "Re: Today's meeting"  
> because they get threaded under decades-old messages with the  
> parent subject!!!

<AOL> me too! </AOL>

Mike.