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On 11/02/2013 09:08 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Either way this doesn't make any sense to me. Each thread has a single origin
> mail, why would anybody would like to show a message other than that while
> displaying the summary of the tread? Even more, why isn't there an option to
> fetch that information easily?

It's entirely possible to make a message that has a References: header 
that includes message IDs from two different threads.  For a message 
like this, there is not a single "origin mail", right?  For threads that 
derive from this message, the whole thread has more than one origin.

	--dkg