Re: Threading list subjects?

[Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu>]

>>>>> "r3chard" == r3chard  <r3chard@writeme.com> writes:

    > Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messages
    > to thread?

Yes, Gnus uses the Reference: header(s) to build threads.  If
references aren't available, it does what it can using Subject:
headers.  It can also use "fuzzy" matching of subjects - sort of
a noise filter to make guesses about what might be related to
what.

With no customization to threading, Gnus 5.5 made this thread look
like this:

 A [  22: Ray Schultz         ] Threading list subjects?
       <  34: Nathan E Norman     > 
       <  23: Nathan C. Burnett   > 
       <  22: Marco Anglesio      > 
       <  26: Ionut Borcoman      > 
       <  10: Mike Miller         > 
       <  20: Christian Weisgerber> 
       <  37: r3chard@writeme.com > 

    > I still do this with debian-user-digest, splitting the
    > digest and adding a dummy Message-ID and some other fields
    > to keep the news system happy. 

The debian-user-digest that I get already has Message-ID's. 

    > I wonder if not snipping the References line would be
    > useful to anybody else?

I think that would be handy.

Mike


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