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

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Dan Keen wrote:

>On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:55 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
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>>On 08/05/2010 02:48 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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>>>So do you want it to always use THREAD=REFS or whatever the server wants
>>>to use?
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>>Either would be fine with me. I have a preference, but I'd be happy with either.
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>Devil's advocate here, but this prevents the client from being smarter.
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+1.

I don't think Arnt is making very good arguments for removing this 
feature ;-).

>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.
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>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".
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>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.
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>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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