From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F11D6DE02BF for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:16:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.019 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.019 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.008, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LdUC1y_E9YC9 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEC2E6DE00BD for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1apFER-0002ak-Cj; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:16:51 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 21571 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 10 Apr 2016 13:16:40 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor , Notmuch Mail Subject: Re: thread merge/split proposal In-Reply-To: <87k2kdutao.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> References: <87mvp9uwi4.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> <87k2kdutao.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21+99~gd93d377 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 10:16:40 -0300 Message-ID: <878u0l8uyv.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 13:16:54 -0000 Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > for (1) i'd propose that the join operation would be implemented by > adding a new term type "join", which can be applied to any document. > Its value is the message-id of a message that *should* be "in-reply-to" > but wasn't. Having "split" terms or equivalently "signed" +-reference terms would allow more general thread splitting, effectively updating (via a little journal of additions and deletions) the references data stored in mail file. The implementation cost could not be that much higher than only join/unjoin; a bit more work managing the terms attached to a document to avoid contradictions. Both versions probably complicate some peoples syncing solutions. d