Re: threading broken in g.e.gnus

[W. Greenhouse]

Tim Howe <vsync@quadium.net> writes:

> I'm noticing many of the threads in here are completely broken.  It
> seems the Message-IDs are getting replaced by Mailman ones so References
> and In-Reply-To headers are left dangling.  So Gnus falls back to the
> "same-subject-guessing" behavior.
>
>     http://i.imgur.com/xgxuZT0.png
>
> Is this intentional?

You can try customizing `gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function'.
Gnus's default is indeed to fall back on Subject if References are
wrong, but you can eliminate this behavior if you wish.  See also (info
"(gnus) Loose Threads").

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Regards,
WGG