Re: Can it be done?

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From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 18:08:21 CDT


 phil@itmagic.ltd.uk ("Phil White") writes:
>A reverse-date sorted thread index (newest original thread at top)
> (fine so far)
>with the thread depth set at 1 (Display ONLY the root message)
> (and most importantly)

 Adding these to your ~/.hmrc will do approximately that:
reverse = 1
thread_file_depth=1

>give a brief summary of the message body (say first 5 lines)

 Hypermail does not support this.
 Would a fixed number of lines provide a useful summary under many conditions,
or would it make more sense to try to identify the first sentence (with
some minimum and maximum byte length)?
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