On splitting threads - Was: Re: Combining threads

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+From: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>\r
+Subject: On splitting threads - Was: Re: Combining threads\r
+Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:08:24 +0200\r
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+Hi.\r
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+Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:\r
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+> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:57:21 -0800, Scott Henson <scott@foolishpride.org> wrote:\r
+>> Sometimes I get email from people with broken email clients that seem to\r
+>> break threading.  I remember that sup had a method of combining two threads\r
+>> into one.  Does notmuch have a similar feature?  Is it even possible to\r
+>> force it to glue two threads together and treat them as one?\r
+>\r
+\r
+>> The bigger problem is that as soon as we have an operation to join\r
+>> threads, people are going to need an operation to split threads. (And\r
+>> some people want this already for cases where people reply when they\r
+>> should have composed a new message.)\r
+>>\r
+\r
+Also in the context of\r
+http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688699, I should say I'd\r
+welcome a thread split feature for such cases too.\r
+\r
+FWIW, hope this helps.\r
+\r
+Best regards,\r
+-- \r
+Olivier BERGER \r
+http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8\r
+Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF\r
+Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)\r
+\r