Re: A T more intelligent than ^ ?

[Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

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> Not quite -- `A T' uses the normal Gnus threading code, which
> examines References (and if you're not using NOV) In-Reply-To.  `^'
> also does this, but References and/or In-Reply-To may be broken in
> interesting ways, so it is possible that `A T' gives different
> results than `^'.  Sometimes better, sometimes worse, I'd have
> thought. 

The message I'm using (the followup with missing References header) has no
In-Reply-To header either, so A T must also be looking at the subject header
to determine threading.  But, given that sometimes `^' just gives up,
couldn't we have it at least attempt to pick up the nearest article that A T
finds?  Seems like a logical fallback to me...

To emphasize, neither In-Reply-To nor References appears in the headers of
the followup at all.  The complete list of headers (after gnus pulled it in)
are: X-From-Line, Return-Path, Delivered-To, Received, X-Gnus-Mail-Source,
Message-Id, X-Mailer, Date, From, To, Subject, Mime-Version, Content-Type,
Content-Transfer-Encoding, Content-Disposition, Lines, and Xref.  Nothing
about what this message is a reply or followup to...

Cheers,
-- 
  Ami Fischman
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