Re: Major splitting problem ... Advice please

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> To cut to the chase here, I'm thinking of splitting this up into
> groups that contain one month/yr of a specific group.  

Hmm, I've been working on something similar off and on.  I was only
working on per-year splitting, and I hadn't yet decided what, if
anything, I was going to try to do about breaking threads, but I was
trying to write an elisp function using gnus calls to do the job
because I wanted to preserve all my marks.

> However, there are enough differnet date styles to make that kind of
> split pretty hard to program.  Also the problem of some messages
> that came late to a thread, landing in a different group arises.
> Keeping all thead members in one group may not even be possible,
> except by hand.  I'm not sure.

Hmm.  I had just been planning to use gnus date functions.  I hadn't
considered that those might not be sufficient.

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