Topic threading tech (not this list in particular) (was: Dividing
The List Considered Harmful)
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 21:15:13 EDT 2007
On 3/27/07, Mark E. Mallett <mem at mv.mv.com> wrote:
> Oh, and back to a previous subject... simply changing the subject text
> isn't really enough. When a threat mutates, you really want a new one,
> which means getting rid of the "References" links.
Hmmm. Interesting take. I've always found the References links
*useful* for keeping track of the "bigger picture" of how a
conversation came about. I've been annoyed when reading archives and
found things out-of-sequence when those links are broken. It never
occurred to me that someone might see that as a feature. Hmmm.
As far as implementation goes, any idea what mail readers (if any)
implement this functionality natively? (That is, provide a function
for "Reply without References". You could always do it with
cut-and-paste, of course.)
Shouldn't a good threaded reader with thread-kill capability be able
to kill just a designated fork/subthread?
> mm (my opinionated.info)
I'm such a geek. I actually looked that up with whois to see who
owned it. Turns out it really *is* yours! Well done! :-)
-- Ben
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