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+From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>\r
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+To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>, \r
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+Subject: Re: Getting the right root mail of the thread\r
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+On 11/02/2013 09:08 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:\r
+> Either way this doesn't make any sense to me. Each thread has a single origin\r
+> mail, why would anybody would like to show a message other than that while\r
+> displaying the summary of the tread? Even more, why isn't there an option to\r
+> fetch that information easily?\r
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+It's entirely possible to make a message that has a References: header \r
+that includes message IDs from two different threads. For a message \r
+like this, there is not a single "origin mail", right? For threads that \r
+derive from this message, the whole thread has more than one origin.\r
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+ --dkg\r