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a better thread algo (Score:1)

by jmason (3282)

yeah, this is one failing of the "traditional" threading algorithm as described by JWZ at http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html [jwz.org] .

what I did in 'mhthread' (despite what the POD says ;) is the following, from a comment:

> Sort by the date of the earliest message with that subject line. However:
> if messages share a subject line, but don't refer to each other using IRT
> or Refs headers, and were posted far enough apart (greater than 24 hours),
> then don't thread them consecutively; allow other thre
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  by Matts (1087)
  
  Yeah, but that still means a new message to an older thread goes higher up the screen.
  
  I wanted Mail.app's design - all new messages go to the to bottom of the screen, attached to their thread.
  - Re:a better thread algo (Score:1)
    
    by jmason (3282) on 2006.11.03 10:53 (#51427) Homepage
    
    oh I see what you mean; the entire thread is moved to match the newest message's location. hmm, I may have to hack that.
    
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