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From: "Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo" <phorrillo@aurigae.com>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] how to unlink a message from a thread?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:31:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281432521-sup-4463@aurigae120.hi.inet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281361742-sup-3674@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>

Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Mon Aug 09 15:52:44 +0200 2010:
> Excerpts from Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo's message of Mon Aug 09 06:35:01 -0400 2010:
> 
> > Is there a way to 'free' a message from a thread?
> 
> Lucky for you, forced thread joins aren't preserved across restarts of
> sup...unless this has changed and I didn't notice?  (It's not a
> feature I use, so that is possible.)
> 
Oh, I just checked to be sure, and definitely the link remains.

> Out of curiosity, where do people find the most use for this feature?
> I have a few people out there using braindead mail clients that don't
> preserve enough headers when replying that they end up starting a new
> thread in sup...I might use the thread join if it were persisted.
> 
I use it to join mails that naturally belong in the same “conversation”,
even though they were not posted as actual replies to a given email.
This happens here quite often.

> The other feature that would be really cool is to split a thread.  I
> interact with several people that will start a new email conversation
> by opening an old message, changing subject (and maybe recipients) and
> then sending it.  This preserves the old headers, which sees sup
> append the now disjoint new topic to the old thread.
> 
Same here.

> Thanks
> -Ben
> 
Cheers,

-- 
Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-10  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-09 10:35 Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo
2010-08-09 13:52 ` Ben Walton
2010-08-09 15:38   ` Erik Quaeghebeur
2010-08-10  9:31   ` Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo [this message]

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