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From: William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
To: sup-devel <sup-devel@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-devel] [PATCH] XapianIndex.each_message_in_thread_for yields messages in cronological order
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:10:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262182085-sup-1405@masanjin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262136474-sup-312@tilus.net>

Reformatted excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of 2009-12-29:
> For what I know you might trigger this by replying to many messages at
> once and thus having a list of ids in-reply-to header (in whatever
> order of course, rfc doesn't require any particular order) instead of
> one.  Then when you reply to this message using MUA that is bold
> enough to try to form References: with the standard in-reply-to +
> my-id method even if RFC 2822 says "trying to form a References: field
> for a reply that has multiple parents is discouraged and how to do so
> is not defined in this document".  You end up having References: which
> has bunch of (thread-wise) random ids in random order instead of the
> rfc-specified original, reply, replytoreply, etc. chain of ids.

It's worth reading the top bit of http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
for what In-reply-to: and References: look like in practice. (Basically:
a mess, and the references: header in particular can be truncated in any
way that any MUA feels is reasonable.)

The threading used by the Ferret indexer is a pretty faithful
reproduction of the algorithm described on that page. I'm not that
familiar with the one used by the Xapian index, but a cursory
examination suggests it's a little more fragile.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-30 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1261485246-sup-4236@tilus.net>
2009-12-27 21:37 ` Rich Lane
2009-12-30  2:41   ` Tero Tilus
2009-12-30 14:10     ` William Morgan [this message]
2009-12-30 17:01       ` Rich Lane
2009-12-31 19:41         ` William Morgan
2010-01-01 13:19           ` Tero Tilus

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