From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA0E431FBC for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:54:23 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BXp+kbvUrrPr for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DB2431FAE for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAE1B5A31; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:54:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:54:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=q1JQ/Q9K/5VFrJvTONtqvF0A/wM=; b=k2foQfdTPlyOV4Q0lDBztUhO/MU/EP9P6yDs5r7ajqOSOnlwUw6gnV36iqTdwMzO+9kME3hn88KutBWw1cIaBfmRc2czaMTzLTNsbjZzXHecaU5o26jdiU2VAvMkHZ3ZW6JHQOjFMpXvr7qpb78opGX1f14BDzESI67w3FytcWY= X-Sasl-enc: 8lvUzYub6lqybgU5aT3VDWnVHyy2RJnwLeouzVCWCM8S 1260892458 Received: from veldthuis.com (marten.rgoc.rug.nl [129.125.147.35]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD2E34AF562; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:54:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by veldthuis.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:54:20 +0100 From: Marten Veldthuis To: Carl Worth , Mark Anderson , notmuch In-Reply-To: <87ocm64ivu.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> References: <1260400470-sup-5775@testarossa> <87ws0ug23f.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> <87ljha3avx.fsf@home.veldthuis.com> <87ocm64ivu.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:54:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87my1kkzbn.fsf@marten.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Threading X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:54:23 -0000 On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:13 -0800, Carl Worth 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