On October 25, 2002 at 09:12, tomas(_dot_)halvarsson(_at_)fra(_dot_)se wrote:
Threads that last from one month into the next are split. For
example, look at the "mharc newbie problem" thread in the
mhonarc-users web archive. The thread started on Sept. 26, and
the Oct. 3 post does not have links to previous posts in the
thread, because they are from a previous month.
Yep. Technically, each month is a separate MHonArc archive.
The mhonarc.org archives (i.e. the mharc package) provides a
work-around by leveraging Namazu. At the end of each message
body, you will see the link '[More with this subject...]'.
This executes a search for messages with the same subject for
the entire list archive so month boundaries are no longer a
problem.
It is far from perfect, but it is better than nothing.
Is there any way of making MHonArc look in several .mhonarc.db
-files to get threading across month boundaries work?
No. This is a known limitation, and one of the artifacts of MHonArc's
initial Perl 4 heritage. To do it correctly would require a rewrite
of MHonArc. I have thought of some possible hacks for the existing
code base, but I do not know if it is worth the effort.
multi-month-threading support would be nice to have.
Yes it would.
--ewh
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