Re: Threading

[Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get threading to handle what
> ever is causing the last three messages in the 'slow as molasses' thread
> to not thread under Eze's opener.  I see one is a Cc but should'nt they
> all still thread under the subject line?

  Here's what I have in my `gnus.el' :

(add-hook 'gnus-summary-generate-hook
	  '(lambda ()
	     (if (or (not (gnus-news-group-p gnus-newsgroup-name))
			  (equal gnus-newsgroup-name
                                 "nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:sunsite.linux.kernel"))
		 (setq gnus-simplify-subject-functions
		       '(gnus-simplify-subject-re
			 gnus-simplify-whitespace))
	       (setq gnus-simplify-subject-functions nil))))

  This effectively ignores the `Re' that begins subject lines and the
whitespace that ends them, when the group in question is not a
bona-fide newsgroup. The reason for the `sunsite.auc.dk' reference is
that, although I take it in over nntp, it is really a gateway-ed
mailing list, and as such, articles do not always have `references'
lines that gnus can easily thread by.

  `References' is the header line that, as I understand it, form real
newsgroup threads - anything else is really guess-work on the part of
the newsreader. At least gnus gives us a choice of how we wish to
relate articles in the absence of such criteria.

HTH
-- 
Mike.