==============Original message text=============== From: Samson <public-samsonsu-/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004, 11:18:29 AM Subject: we need real *powerful* threading S> as the email client program that helps me process hundreds of email S> everyday, i believe there is nothing more important than a really S> sophisticated threading machanism. this machanism is expected to help S> me find related "conversations" of an email quickly and accurately.
S> thebat's current threading is a good start, but has a long way to go. S> the main concern is the subject matching algorithm. it seems that S> thebat can match subjects processed by another thebat very well, but S> if the other guy uses a different email program and the subject prefix S> is slightly different (FWD vs. FW, or re/fwd in a different language), S> or "re" and "fwd" are cascaded a couple of times, thebat starts to get S> confused and sort them as different conversations. in worst case, some S> email program truncates subjects and thebat has no way to tell these S> replies correctly. S> i think thebat needs a better subject matching algorithm, maybe a S> "fuzzy" one, for exmple, evaluate every subject and give it a score or S> something like that, and sort threads based on these scores. S> as soon as the threading machanism is carefully redesigned and S> reimplemented, i believe thebat will really become the most attractive S> email program. today there is *no one* email program that can process S> conversation well. i hope thebat can be the first. ===========End of original message text=========== I'm not sure but I think I've read an article on threading in the past. It said that the norm for threading is that thread has to be encoded in a special key in the header of the mail and the soft has to read this header... A real threading can't be based on subject string... And TB was reward after Pocomail because of this problem... It's not my opinion, it is what I've read and my memory can distort the meaning... I try to find this article asap. -- WilWilWil [EMAIL PROTECTED] TB 2.12.00 Windows XP Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
