[Nmh-workers] Threads

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> Wouldn't threading be handled by external scripts?  This sounds like 
> something I would do by generating a list of message-id and references 
> headers, then doing a tsort and feeding the whole mess back into scan/show.

In fact, the whole concept of 'threads' is something I would like to keep 
outside of the base toolset.  The reason being there is no single definition of 
what a 'thread' is, and even when you can come up with a definition, it's 
almost always context sensitive.  I have never found an MUA that can come even 
close to expressing the sort of detail I want when dealing with threads.

I think we would be a lot better off making it simple and fast to expose the 
underlying structure of the message relations in a folder (or folders) and let 
the user paste together their own wrapper scripts to do the job of defining 
what a 'thread' is, and how they should be manipulated.

That doesn't prevent us from adding a set of commands that perform the common 
basic set of thread manipulation operations people are accustomed to.  I just 
don't want to be restricted by hardwired assumptions built into the core 
command set.

--lyndon