Re: Colostomy bags for Aardvarks .. was Re: Helpful subject lines

2003-02-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:28:50PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: > I suppose I could upgrade the Perl on my colo to 5.6.1 but I'm not sure > if I could be arsed. All other things being equal, I'd suggest upgrading it to 5.8.0, given that 5.8.x is actively being maintained, and 5.8.0 isn't slow if you

Re: Colostomy bags for Aardvarks .. was Re: Helpful subject lines

2003-02-12 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:23:24PM +, Mark Fowler said: > I actually got bit by this last month, as Mr Cantrell had started more > than one thread with the subject "books" and pine's very immature > threading couldn't cope. Perhaps one could modify the algorithm so that if the mails were, say,

Re: Colostomy bags for Aardvarks .. was Re: Helpful subject lines

2003-02-12 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: > His 5th step is "If any two members of the root set have the same > subject, merge them. This is so that messages which don't have > References headers at all still get threaded (to the extent possible, at > least.)" I actually got bit by this last month

Re: Colostomy bags for Aardvarks .. was Re: Helpful subject lines

2003-02-12 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:06:26PM +, robin szemeti said: > most MUA's use the 'References:' or the 'In-reply-to:' line in the header to > do the threading ... off hand I can't think of any that use the subject line /me coughs and points at http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html which list