-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Also there is a related issue if A posts, B replies, A replies off > list > to B, and B replies on list. If threading relies solely on References: > or In-Reply-To:, and either A's or B's MUA generates only In-Reply-To, > this thread is broken at the 'missing' post. I don't have any really > good suggestions for alternative threading algorithms however. I think > there was something on this not too long ago on mailman-users or maybe > mailman-developers - I looked and found what I think I remember. The > relevant post is at > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2005-January/ > 017660.html> > and points to a description of an algorithm at > <http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html>. I haven't read JWZ's article in a while, but IIRC, it lays out an algorithm that does about as good as you can do in these cases. BTW, my earlier post re: X-List-Message-ID isn't about threading, it's about message identification and trying to make that as robust as possible. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRKxM3XEjvBPtnXfVAQJUhQP/ZXeVZhPYuXMecIMTO6QiPncRuHMZiSAA rpGeYNspQkszVbsLB27nkppfShkJQC8iSMY8WPEssGUJ4guqROtCdJ7hUURUve5D 4uvAizTrl6Kriv82SZPCmUvN12XnfkT5+ENIkwpWEnh5xf4qoQXNqXfAqWX83Y/Y ldDwY+zkltY= =Nhwt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
