In my view, what you are really discussing are how individuals parse or
associate ideas. It just so happens that what makes information
different from raw and discrete data are the cultural and religious
assumptions and context added to the data. Briefly stated, as any
Anthropologist and/or Psychologist will explain, humans find it a nearly
impossible task to separate their cultural and/or religious assumptions
from what individuals define as being "logical". At the root of this
problem are not merely these assumptions, but language itself which
incorporates and reaffirms these assumptions continuously providing the
illusion of support of the "logical" appearance of the assumption.
These prejudices, for lack of a better term, influence not only what we
see as "logical", but what we see or accept as viable science. This is
a more intractable problem than writing any program or straightforward
script as the very foundation regarding what one believes needs to be
addressed or corrected is seen in terms of one's individual, and usually
untested, understanding. Of course, although as a society humanity
developed mathematics and science to see such errors of thinking more
clearly it is sadly also obvious that history shows very clearly that
more often than not, humans require more than a generation at the
minimum to catch such errors.
On 1/24/2011 7:15 AM, Tobias Nissen wrote:
Colin Leroy wrote:
[...]
I think a solution would be to remove In-Reply-To and References
headers using an action. The difficulty of it is that References can
span multiple lines.
I could easily parse that, but there's another problem. Consider this
thread:
A
-> B
-> ...
-> C (new)
-> D (my reply)
-> E (others' replies)
-> F (others' reply)
-> ...
Let's say C is the subthread with the changed subject line, that is
supposed to be a new thread. Of course I could go on and remove those
references. C would then stand alone as the beginning of a new thread.
My reply to C (D) and replies to my reply (E) would then correctly be
filed under that new thread.
But direct replies to C (F) would still contain some references to the
old thread, A in this case. It doesn't really matter what Claws does in
this case, my guess would be to still file the reply under C. But all
direct replies to C would still have those "stale" references to A.
I don't consider this a good idea. Say for some reason I'd want to
delete message C. I would then expect that all replies to C would either
stand alone or form *new* thread beginnings. Instead, at least that's
a behaviour I observed in my past MUAs, all those messages would again
be filed under A. Maybe not right then, but surely when the index is
rebuilt for some reason.
I think there's now way around building a sophisticated filtering
mechanism. I think it's really hard to do right.
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