From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4821 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sparse threads Date: 19 Jan 1996 08:15:22 -0500 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Sender: gsstark@fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU Message-ID: References: <68emvqh8.fsf@bjob.no> <199601101841.TAA11446@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145515 30949 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:25:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA00852 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 06:29:36 -0800 Original-Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:15:32 +0100 Original-Received: from FIERCE-BAD-RABBIT.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21234; Fri, 19 Jan 96 08:15:21 EST Original-Received: by fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24407; Fri, 19 Jan 96 08:15:25 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 11 Jan 1996 22:25:24 +0100 Original-Lines: 30 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.29/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4821 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