On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:16:34PM +0100, Anders Helmersson wrote:
> Several years ago I wrote a patch for allowing sorting mails that reply
> to several messages. It is attached as an mq patch, see README.DAG for
> details. The mails can be sorted using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs),
> which can be seen as an extension of the tree structure.

I might be interested in this patch (whether or not it gets applied),
but this seems like it could get messy fast.  What does it look like
if you reply to 4 messages, where:

 - The first message is the original post
 - The second is a reply to the first
 - the third is a reply to both the first and the second
 - the fourth is a reply to only the first

Can you show an example with that structure?

Thanks

> Since multi-reply messages occur very seldom (once a year on mutt-dev) I
> don't find it worth implementing, but it could be of interest to someone
> on this list.

I actually reply to multiple messages very frequently.  Not so much on
this list (though, sometimes), but more often on work-related mailing
lists and certain other Linux-related mailing lists.

I'm inclined to think that they tend to happen infrequently because a)
people don't realize the feature exists, and/or b) they are lazy about
trimming replies anyway, so (as happens at work a lot) they just
include the entire thread in every reply.  [Sigh]

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