as the email client program that helps me process hundreds of email everyday, i believe there is nothing more important than a really sophisticated threading machanism. this machanism is expected to help me find related "conversations" of an email quickly and accurately.
thebat's current threading is a good start, but has a long way to go. the main concern is the subject matching algorithm. it seems that thebat can match subjects processed by another thebat very well, but if the other guy uses a different email program and the subject prefix is slightly different (FWD vs. FW, or re/fwd in a different language), or "re" and "fwd" are cascaded a couple of times, thebat starts to get confused and sort them as different conversations. in worst case, some email program truncates subjects and thebat has no way to tell these replies correctly. i think thebat needs a better subject matching algorithm, maybe a "fuzzy" one, for exmple, evaluate every subject and give it a score or something like that, and sort threads based on these scores. as soon as the threading machanism is carefully redesigned and reimplemented, i believe thebat will really become the most attractive email program. today there is *no one* email program that can process conversation well. i hope thebat can be the first. -- Samson, using Agent newsreader ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
