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• a better thread algo (Score:1)

  by jmason (3282) on 2006.11.03 9:54 (#51425) Homepage

  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 threads to appear between
  > them. This ensures that a recent post to a *really* old thread doesn't
  > appear 500 messages back "in ancient history".
  
  This works really nicely, in my experience, although I should probably shorten that "really far apart" distance to something like 12 hours instead of 24.
  
  I should really CPANify that algorithm someday.

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    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: (Score:1)

      by jmason (3282)

      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.