Re: Message threading on this list

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On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 14:10 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-11-24 at 11:18 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I prefer Evolution to TBird. It lets you fall back to threading by
> > Subject if the headers aren't present. I do that and don't see any
> > threading issues.
> > 
> > You can also ignore a thread or subthread.
> 
> I've never seen a mail client make ignoring threads as easy as Forte
> Agent did some 20 years ago.  Just press the I hotkey, and the
> current
> message and all its siblings (now and forever), are marked to be
> ignored (then they're either dimmed or hidden, according to your own
> preferences).  But other responses in the thread are unaffected.
> 
> I did like how Agent worked, ignoring a thread did not erroneously
> mark
> it as read.  To me, read means I've read it.  When "ignore" is
> separate
> from "read" I can find unread messages if I need to.  It had nice
> features for hiding old messages without deleting them, to unclutter
> your display (again without erroneously marking them as read).  And
> for
> purging even older messages from your cache, if you wanted to.  And
> it
> was the only client I ever saw that could rewrap quotes, and quotes
> of
> quotes, without mangling them.

One other thing I like about Evolution (it was my own suggestion,
<modest cough> :-): you can point at a message and show the entire
thread its in, showing both read and unread messages and hiding
everything outside it. Slightly inspired by the "focus" concept in
Emacs.

poc
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