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From: Marten Veldthuis <marten@veldthuis.com>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>,
	Mark Anderson <markr.anderson@amd.com>,
	notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Threading
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:54:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my1kkzbn.fsf@marten.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocm64ivu.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:13 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> But I still have a hard time justifying user operations to manipulate
> threading. The whole point of threading is to make it faster to process
> and read messages. But manual operations like joining and splitting
> threads seem like the user just doing more work, and that *after* having
> read the messages. So that seems mostly backwards to me.

By the way, Outlook & Exchange suck (or at least some versions do), and
don't seem to generate In-Reply-To and References: headers. Just got a
mail which prompted me to write this mail. I'd really like to be able to
join messages in a case like this.

-- 
- Marten

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-15 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-09 23:21 Threading Mark Anderson
2009-12-10 17:39 ` Threading Carl Worth
2009-12-10 19:08   ` Threading Marten Veldthuis
2009-12-10 21:30     ` Threading Carl Worth
2009-12-15 15:54       ` Marten Veldthuis [this message]
2009-12-23 22:07         ` Threading Mark Anderson
2010-01-08  3:12 ` Threading martin f krafft
2010-01-14 22:08   ` Threading Carl Worth
2010-01-14 22:37     ` Threading martin f krafft

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