Re: Major splitting problem ... Advice please

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I currently use command line tools or homemade scripting to extract
> info from this pile, but it would be nice to be easily able to access
> it with gnus at times too.  By `access' here, I don't mean nndir or
> the like.  But handy smallish groups that handle well inside
> gnus. Where all manner of highlight or other special treatment/sorting
> wouldn't be a major time drag. Maybe a series of nnml groups for each
> main newsgroup or something.

Maybe the best thing to do is to write a script which extracts
threads.  Then you just keep adding threads to a group until it gets
larger than N messages, then start the next group.

Let T be an empty thread.  You find a message R (the root of the
thread) which does not have a References header.  You add it to the
thread.  So T now contains one message.  Let M be the set of
Message-ID headers for all messages in T.  You find a new message X
and you see that its References header mentions one of the Message-IDs
in M.  So you add X to T, and you add X's Message-ID to M, and repeat.

See?

kai
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