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In article <844384411snx@comproom.demon.co.uk>
   Steve Nutt <Steve@comproom.demon.co.uk> writes:
>   What about if there is only one message in the thread and it contains
>   "RE:" in the subject line, would it then be possible to change the
>   thread listing for just the one message.

Possible. But I'm only going to do it if lots of other people think it is 
a good idea.

>   Incidentally, while we are on such things, would it be possible to
>   "sort" the threads a little better.  For example, in a news and mail
>   folder, you may see three messages in a thread, go down a few threads,
>   then see a few more with the same thread.  Why not sort them all into
>   one thread?  

You have two ways of sorting messages into threads. Either by Subject, or 
by Reference.

Sorting into threads by Reference relies on the message sender(s) putting 
correct "References" or "In-Reply-To" headers in their messages. Although 
this is the "correct" way to thread, it is not particularly good, because 
there are quite a few people out there using newsreaders that don't do 
this correctly. And there are also quite a few who press the wrong key, 
and start a new thread when they really meant to contribute to an existing
one.

Cppnews therefore also offers threading by Subject. This is selected from 
the Options menu - just turn OFF the tick next to "Thread by Reference". 
This method tries to link together all articles with the same subject. It 
uses a "fuzzy matching" process which attempts to cope with the vaguaries 
of Usenet postings. It strips of "Re:" from the start, ignores case 
distinctions, copes with truncated subjects, and ignores some other 
differences. It is not perfect, but it is usually pretty good.

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