Pine: Threading ...

[David L Miller]

On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Michael Maa=DF wrote:

> are there any plans to improve Pine=AE to support threading of News and
> Mails in the future?
>=20

Yes. I don't know if it will make it into Pine 4.00, but probably the
next release after that...=20

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[Robin S. Socha]

>> "MM" =3D=3D Michael Maass <Michael> writes:

MM> Hi, are there any plans to improve Pine=AE to support threading of
MM> News and Mails in the future?

What for? If you want threads, use mutt or Gnus. Duhhh...

Cheers,
Robin

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[Timothy J. Luoma]

In <Pine.ULT.4.00.971029...@shiva2.cac.washington.edu> David
L Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Michael Maa wrote:
>
> > are there any plans to improve Pine to support threading of News and
> > Mails in the future?
>

> Yes. I don't know if it will make it into Pine 4.00, but probably the
> next release after that...

Then this would be a good time to mention common problems with threading:

1) dopes who hit ``reply/followup'' to start a new thread (this happens a
lot)

2) folks who are using newsreaders who don't keep the In-Reply-To/References
headers,
and the Subject line is all that is kept

3) Wide-afield topics which are only loosely connected:

Ie I post ``Hey I hate spam and boy isn't it a shame about the Indians''

There isn't a whole lot PINE can do about 1 and 3, but they can do something
about 2 at least...

TjL

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[Orjan Johansen]

In article <638sgc$afr$2...@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,

Timothy J. Luoma <nos...@all.please> wrote:
>
>1) dopes who hit ``reply/followup'' to start a new thread (this
>happens a
>lot)
>
>2) folks who are using newsreaders who don't keep the In-Reply-To/References
>headers,
> and the Subject line is all that is kept
>

>There isn't a whole lot PINE can do about 1 and 3, but they can do something
>about 2 at least...

Pine already adds both References and In-Reply-To - the former, at
least, _is_ a standards requirement.

It just doesn't use them for anything itself. Which presumably means
that pine users are less likely to know about threads and so will more
easily do mistake (1).

It would be nice if Pine could satisfy the Minimally Adequate
Net-Keeping Seal of Approval (http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejs/manksa/)

Greetings,
״rjan.

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