From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 18:05:55 CST
clear@ims.net (Mark Clear) writes:
>I am having a bit of trouble bending my mind around the threading. I'm
>sure this has been discussed at length on the list, but if someone could
>crystallize it for me, that would help. The problem as I see it is that HM
>is not threading the way I expect it to. Some replies are indented once,
>others are not indented at all. Nothing is indented more than one
>level. Some messages are "maybe in reply to," others are "in reply to,"
>implying that sometimes HM is not sure. This does not seem to be related
>to the indenting. Setting the thrdlevels config variable doesn't seem to
>have any effect at all.
It isn't very bright about determining which messages are replying to
which. I have a version at http://crit.org/critmail.html which does a
better job (when the linkquotes option is turned on) by matching quoted
text in the message bodies. This should eventually get into the main
Hypermail distribution.
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