On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:50:10PM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote: > it is possible whenever a followup has a reference > to this message - or to a followup which in turn > has a reference pointing back at the message. > > so much for theory.
And in practice, mutt does a great job of threading already. It's not perfect for some of the reasons you outline, but it is good enough. > hint: you want News aka Usenet and a good newsreader. > recommended: gnus, slrn, tin, trn, xnews. (GNKSA!) > and then there is mutt plus the NNTP patches.. I don't think I do :) regards john -- I am a complete moron for forgetting about endianness. May I be forever marked as such.
