Alex -- ...and then Alex Polite said... % % Some mailing list are well disciplined. People on this list rarely % start a new thread by replying to an old mail. Other, usually less Thank heavens :-) % technical, lists are sloppy. The default behavior to start a new Indeed :-( % thread on these lists seems to be to reply to an old one, remove the % body and change the subject line. Yep. Little do they know... % % Is there any alternative threading algorithm in mutt that deals better Not really. % with this than the default one? One that takes the subject lines into Well, you could sort by Subject... I wonder if you can sort_aux by thread to try to keep them together. Let us know. % account. If not I'd like to put it on the request for features list. The problem is that there's no way to tell what is a new thread and what is just a change of subject. For instance, that hypothetical mutt would proably put this message -- whose Subject: I have deliberately changed -- on its own instead of in the thread. Yes, it can be painful breaking threads manually (and even more painful fixing them, as I am often wont to do), but at least it's straightforward. % % regards alex. % % -- % % Alex Polite % http://plusseven.com/gpg HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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