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From: MAINT@DERRZE1.BITNET (Rainer M Woitok)
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Subject: Re: Two more items for the wish list
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Date: 18 Jan 90 13:17:32 GMT
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In-Reply-To:  Message of Wed, 17 Jan 90 12:08:22 EST from <MICHAEL@UTORONTO>

On Wed, 17 Jan 90 12:08:22 EST Michael Wagner said:
> ...
>I would guess that you want to be able to read the messages in the
>order that corresponds to which messages are replies to which. The
>best way of doing this is to use the 'in-reply-to' fields, where
>available, and to use time/date/subject/timezone/cokebottle heuristics
>only when better information isn't available.

This idea  is clearly supperior to  what I suggested, though,  I fear, a
lot more difficult to implement.  The solution of disregarding the first
character ("*" or " ") of  the subject field whenever an additional sort
field was specified would be a  quick (& dirty), though not perfect one.
Besides you had  to do that anyway, when no  'In-Reply-To:' header field
was available.

>Did I understand you correctly?   Michael

Yes, I think you did.

Sincerely
 Rainer

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