Ken & Chris, et al --
...and then Ken Weingold said...
% On Thu, Aug 2, 2001, David T-G wrote:
% > % list users don't seem to know much about E-Mail: They just hit Outlurks
% > % "Reply"-button, erase the subject and start another thread. The result
% >
% > Don't you just *hate* that? Urgh!
%
% I see it all the time and it iritates the hell out of me.
...and then Chris Fuchs said...
% on Thu,02 Aug 2001, David T-G wrote:
%
% >I had long ago requested "prune" and "graft" functions to pull a
...
% >whip up the line, and then dump it back onto the folder in order for mutt
% >to not ignore my changes. I'd love to know more about that, or have a
% >prune/graft patch pointer :-)
%
% Boy could I ever rant on this topic :-)
I guess us mutt folks are just elitist bastards :-)
%
% A "prune" and "graft" feature certainly has my vote and yes the "graft"
% would be much more trickier. I've just rebuilt a simple thread manually
% by saving messages as you've mentioned. The References: line is a
% sequential concatenation of all the prior ids on the their respective
Yep.
% Message-ID: lines. Maybe a pair of external scripts bound to keys might
% do the trick: one to extract and save the References: and Message-ID: lines
% of the prior post and the another to pick them up, create a new References:
% line and add it along with a In-Reply-To: line to current message. There's
% probably alot more to this though.
That's certainly the basis, though, and I think it's a good start. Now
to find someone to implement it... <hint>
%
% Of course, having this functionality integrated into mutt and ensuring
% that it worked with tagged messages, when appropriate, would be really
% nice...
Well, yeah; ask for the world, why don't you :-)
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