Torgeir Veimo wrote:
>
> If you need a "highlevel" view of the details of message-threading-view,
> check out http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html.
>
That is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for - excellent!
But is it what is actually done? This purports to describe the best
algorithm for message threading, and the author claims that he has
implemented this in C efficiently and says "Just say no to databases!"
which implies to me that this is *not* the algorithm being used.
In another message, someone suggested something similar and said are you
sure Mozilla's threading isn't inherited from NS4.x? Whereupon someone
says "no, we never got it, Netscape didn't give it to us." Then, is the
Mozilla code based upon *3.x* code?
Certainly the Netscape 'broken' things that the author mentions still
seem to not be implemented - dummy level 0 parents, group similar
unthreaded subjects (I think).
So: what *really* is supposed to be going on in threading, and are we
being all that we can be? (to steal us marine lingo from movies)
Jeremy
