sup talk - Aug 2010 - how to unlink a message from a thread?

Hi, fellas!

I have mistakenly used the ''#'' command to force one message
into a
thread.  I want to undo that, but I realized it AFTER quitting sup (so,
it''s too late to use the ''u'' command).

Is there a way to ''free'' a message from a thread?


Thanks a bunch!


Happy hacking,

-- 
Pedro F. ?pancho? Horrillo

Excerpts from Pedro F. ?pancho? Horrillo''s message of Mon Aug 09
06:35:01 -0400 2010:
> Is there a way to ''free'' a message from a thread?
Lucky for you, forced thread joins aren''t preserved across restarts of
sup...unless this has changed and I didn''t notice?  (It''s not
a
feature I use, so that is possible.)

Out of curiosity, where do people find the most use for this feature?
I have a few people out there using braindead mail clients that don''t
preserve enough headers when replying that they end up starting a new
thread in sup...I might use the thread join if it were persisted.

The other feature that would be really cool is to split a thread.  I
interact with several people that will start a new email conversation
by opening an old message, changing subject (and maybe recipients) and
then sending it.  This preserves the old headers, which sees sup
append the now disjoint new topic to the old thread.

Thanks
-Ben

--
Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Ben Walton wrote:
>
> The other feature that would be really cool is to split a thread.  I
> interact with several people that will start a new email conversation
> by opening an old message, changing subject (and maybe recipients) and
> then sending it.  This preserves the old headers, which sees sup
> append the now disjoint new topic to the old thread.
This, and the even more difficult multi-subject-mails that generate 
different threads (all one big thread by header...). Dealing nicely with 
that would mean that selected messages can be part of different (split) 
threads.

Erik

Excerpts from Ben Walton''s message of Mon Aug 09 15:52:44 +0200
2010:
> Excerpts from Pedro F. ?pancho? Horrillo''s message of Mon Aug 09
06:35:01 -0400 2010:
> 
> > Is there a way to ''free'' a message from a thread?
> 
> Lucky for you, forced thread joins aren''t preserved across
restarts of
> sup...unless this has changed and I didn''t notice?  (It''s
not a
> feature I use, so that is possible.)
> 
Oh, I just checked to be sure, and definitely the link remains.
> Out of curiosity, where do people find the most use for this feature?
> I have a few people out there using braindead mail clients that
don''t
> preserve enough headers when replying that they end up starting a new
> thread in sup...I might use the thread join if it were persisted.
> 
I use it to join mails that naturally belong in the same ?conversation?,
even though they were not posted as actual replies to a given email.
This happens here quite often.
> The other feature that would be really cool is to split a thread.  I
> interact with several people that will start a new email conversation
> by opening an old message, changing subject (and maybe recipients) and
> then sending it.  This preserves the old headers, which sees sup
> append the now disjoint new topic to the old thread.
> 
Same here.
> Thanks
> -Ben
> 
Cheers,

-- 
Pedro F. ?pancho? Horrillo