Re: [MORG] THREAD= search return option in draft-ietf-morg-inthread-01.txt

[Dan Keen <[e-mail]>]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:55 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

> On 08/05/2010 02:48 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> So do you want it to always use THREAD=REFS or whatever the server wants
>> to use?
> 
> Either would be fine with me. I have a preference, but I'd be happy with either.

Devil's advocate here, but this prevents the client from being smarter.

Let's say we have a thread where the client knows some of the messages in the thread are malformed (don't have proper references or in-reply-to), but it doesn't have all the messages in the thread downloaded.

WIthout being able to specify the threading algorithm in the search, we can't say "Hey, on this one, use Subject-based threading because we know it's malformed".

Yes, the client can try to do it's own subject-based threading implementation with multiple searches to the server, but this could be an improvement.

I'd agree it's not necessary, but I want to make sure we know there is a valid use case for it.

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