Re: Message Threading or Interleaving Your Replies

Does your Rube Goldberg machine actually reconstruct the thread in its
original message sequence?  I looked into gnus-refer-thread-use-search
and was rather horrified.  For nnml, it might do a simple find-grep.
For an nnimap user like myself, it would actually attempt
a dovecot query, something I've struggled mightily with even without the
added complication of the nnselect abstraction.

But more importantly, the whole business of just-in-time search to
reconstruct threads is like Armstrong returning to the Moon to retrieve
his house keys.  Even in 1995 when Gnus was written, there was a clear
notion of a message thread.  Not keeping its constituent messages
contiguous on disk was just a basic design mistake.  With gcc-self, I
can rectify this error without insane gymnastics.