Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mailthreader, anyone? was: Re: Uniformity?

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

>>>>> "G" == Gleef  <gleef@capital.net> writes:

G> Um, every version of Pine I have used supports threading just fine.
G> In the "Index" view (the one with the list of mail messages in the
G> folder), you hit "$" for sort, followed by "O" for Ordered Subject.

I don't think you know precisely what threading is.  Here's an
example:

Y -[  45:  Mark Galassi       ] using gnome-help-caller
Y -    [  27:  Havoc Pennington   ] 
O -        [  15: +Miguel de Icaza    ] 
Y -    [  54:  Felix Bellaby      ] 
Y -        [  65:  Mark Galassi       ] 
Y -            [  84:  Felix Bellaby      ] 


In pine, while you can sort by subject, you won't necessarily know
which post replied to which.  For instance, Felix's post may have been
written before Miguel's but after Havoc's, and pine wouldn't group
them correctly.  This gets more important when one branch of the tree
goes off topic....

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