[Coco] mailing list thread reconstruction

[Roger Taylor]

I'm wondering how effective it would be to consider all archive posts 
starting with "re: " to be a reply to the same topic without that 
prefix in it.  If somebody changed the topic a little but it still 
starts with "re: " it could be considered a new thread and the "re: " 
removed so the replies to THAT thread will find their parent as well.

So called hijacked threads should fix themselves by becoming new 
threads since the subject line is used

I've got thousands and thousands of Princeton CoCo mailing list 
messages to import but I can't go to deep until I know the threads 
are reconstructed fair enough.



Hello World
re: Hello World
re: Hello World
re: Hello World

re: Howdy (was Hello World)   no "Howdy (was Hello World)" parent 
found, so make this the parent and rename it

Howdy (was Hello World)
re: Howdy (was Hello World)   a reply to the new thread



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~ Roger Taylor