Re: Sparse threads

[gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark)]

sparse threads are really cool, thanks a lot lars!
i have two questions though:

the scenario is; i'm reading a response to an article that i've already read
another response to some other day does it show me that other response?  
in other words, having already read articles 1 and 2 in the following thread, 
i am now looking at article 3:
  [1] - [2]
    \ - [3]
i believe with a setting of t (equivalent of 'some) it will show me [1] but
not [2], the old reply.  in other words, sparse threads will get me:
  [1] - [3]
i think it is relatively important to know that i've already seen a reply. 
i would like a way of seeing such a reply without necessarily asking for the
entire thread since the beginning of time; there are several newsgroups where
threads are starting to march off past the width of my screen (and I decrease
the indentation already).


the other scenario is in my mail groups. a lot of the mail in my mail box
consists of replies to mail i sent out.  the mail i sent out isn't in my mail
box of course, but it is (now) stored in the mail archive.  it would be nice
if gnus would check for any missing article msg-id's in the outgoing mail (and
maybe news) archive.  This would actually make sparse threads useful in mail
groups; currently all it does is make a lot of pieces of mail take two lines,
one of which is mostly content-free.


greg