Re: New features + feature freeze?

[Yair Friedman <yair@cs.huji.ac.il>]

>>>>> "SD" == Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net> writes:

SD> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> said:
LMI> Sten Drescher <stend@cris.com> writes:
>>> The threads need to be gathered first, then sorted, since
>>> gnus-thread-sort-functions are supposed to be sorting threads, not
>>> articles within threads.

LMI> Yes, I agree.  Hmn.  Or at least I think I do.  Can't somebody
LMI> convince me that this is a bad idea?  This sounds like Real Work
LMI> fixing this, and I certainly don't like Real Work.  :-)

SD> It should be fixed, because you are apparently using
SD> gnus-thread-sort-functions as gnus-article-sort-functions.  It
SD> confuses me as to how you can sort threads by their total score before
SD> the threads have been gathered, since the threads need to be gathered
SD> before you know what goes together for the total score.

There should be different methods to sort threads and to sort orphan
articles within a thread.

If it is possible I would like to suggest another way of threading.
My definition of a thread is that two articles are in the same thread
if they have at least one common article in the References header,
even if this article is not in the server any more.
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