Re: New features + feature freeze?

[Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU>]

Per said:
> What if you want both?  I'd like it to gather as much as possible
> using references, and then gather what is left using subject.

I second this.  I've been meaning to post about this for a while.  I think the
idea of threading is to minimize the number of distinct threads for me to deal
with.  If there are two threads with the same topic then it's been defeated.
So I want it to use references headers to get the threads right whenever
possible, but when someone's broken reader messes up it should go ahead and
try to correct by looking at the subject lines.

Sten said:
> This is a Bad Thing.  When I use gnus-sort-by-total-score, I
> want the total score of the entire thread used, whether 'real' with
> references or gathered orphaned articles.

I second this as well.  Actually We'll have to thing more about what it means
to sort and score threads.  Maybe the right thing to do is to sort children of
the same article according to the the cumulative score (using
gnus-thread-score-function) of all their children. Then sort the thread roots
the same way.  However, I don't think this actually provides much benefit; I'm
not sure if it's worth it.

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greg