On Oct 27, 2003, at 4:11 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
Yes, the in-reply-to and references headers are needed to establish parent-child relations but subject selection must be applied first.
The Subject: header does figure prominently in JWZ's threading algorithm. But you will see the first step in the algorithm is to make a tree of Container objects based on the References: header.
Somehow Apple's engineers have managed to make a threading algorithm that can deal with changed Subject lines and still maintain the topic thread. I am guessing it's the JWZ algorithm but don't know.
I am not advocating that people change Subject lines willy nilly though. Also I didn't realize until now that the "Re:" part of subjects is helpful in the threading algorithms too.
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