There is an excellent program called trn, Threaded Read News. It has
this great feature that you can follow threads as they branch in
different directions. This is the only program I've seen which
actually maintains the tree structure of a thread rather than
treating it as linear. E.g.
(1) -(1)--(2)--[2]
%u2502-(1) -
%u2502 \-[1]
\-(1) -[1]--[1]
\-[1]
This tree represents an initial article that has three direct replies
(the second column with three (1)%u2019s). Each reply has further
replies branching off from them. In two cases the subject line was
altered in the reply, as indicated by the increasing numbers. (from
the manual)
This is an text-based POSIX program which I use on Ubuntu; I imagine
it should work on the OSX command line.
http://trn.sourceforge.net/
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