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Steve Harris <sharris@primus.com> writes:

> Yeah, I noticed that. It's an unfortunate trade-off, because as a user
> I wouldn't have noticed that we're reusing the fragmented message
> collation routine to figure out which messages I'm referring to
> here. I can see how this sequence-based grouping is useful for
> uudecoding, but the basic "digest and forward" command doesn't
> necessarily have anything to do with fragmented messages. The naive
> user (me, in this case) suffers as a result of this code reuse.

Yes -- that command behaves the way it does for hysterical raisins.
(The command debuted as a part of gnus-uu.)

> So if I want to be able to digest and mail an entire sub-thread, is
> there some quick way to process-mark the sub-thread and get them all
> digested in the right order?

`T # S O m'.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen