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Re: mutt's thread editing (was Re: Thread stealing )



On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
| * Hans Ekbrand (hans@sociologi.cjb.net) [020625 05:03]:
| > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:41:42AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote:
| > > Could you avoid posting to a mailing list by doing a reply to a current
| > > thread and changing the subject ? I don't know for pine but on MUA able
| > > to display the threads, it's boring to see a thread in another simply
| > > because you can type the ml address by yourself or save it in your
| > > address book.
| > 
| > Agreed. It makes it harder than it ought to be to manage this
| > high-volume list (Deleting a whole thread is very convenient, but
| > thread stealing undo the gain of an intelligent MUA).
| 
| Of course, we all wish they'd stop doing that, but there will always be
| people who do. Mutt's thread editing patch works wonders for this. It's
| included by default in mutt 1.4. Then you can just hit '#' on the
| offending messages and voila! It breaks the thread.

Unfortunately it doesn't ...
    /me goes to get a "screen shot" of the error message
oh, look, 1.4 now supports '#' and '&' for maildir folders!

(1.3 only supported thread-breaking in mbox and mmdf folders)

-D

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