From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32022 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: What does `gathering loose threads' mean? Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:00:48 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168365 17458 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E57D051E for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:04:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAC15516; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:01:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 09 Aug 2000 11:00:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13917 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:00:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32E6D051E for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:00:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id SAA00181 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:00:49 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA25969; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:00:48 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id SAA14072; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:00:48 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 25 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32022 If I have two messages with the same subject (but otherwise unrelated), they will be displayed near to each other in the summary buffer. Where does this come from? Is this a result of loose threads gathering? If so, the documentation is confusing, because it talks about expired roots of threads and the like. This lead me to thinking that Gnus looks at the References header of message 1 and at the References header of message 2 and if MsgId foo occurs in both headers, then the two messages are in the same thread. Maybe the documentation should be changed to more explicitly point out that loose threads gathering does NOT look at the References header, but ONLY at the Subject header. What is the minimum configuration that will do loose threads gathering? (I think it is sufficient to set gnus-summary-make-false-root to a non-nil value, but I'm not sure.) kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music.