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TRN, anyone (Threaded News Reader), ran on AIX, before 1996 | 141 comments | Create New Account

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AOL patents displaying threaded email messages ..

Authored by: TheOldBear on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 12:56 PM EDT

And the Compuserve readers TapCIS and Golden Compass were doing this earlier as well.
[And probably many nntp client programs since the inception of nntp]

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TRN, anyone (Threaded News Reader), ran on AIX, before 1996

Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 06:20 PM EDT

Just a little more prior art...
(Christenson)

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AOL patents displaying threaded email messages ..

Authored by: bprice on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 01:02 AM EDT

In 1983..1986, I worked with Unix systems (both AT&T and BSD). We used both news and email. The transport was uucp; the message format was close to RFC822. In particular, the MESSAGE-ID header and its dependent headers were just coming into use.

I don't recall which MUA I used; I used rn as my preferred news reader.

For messages from sending MUAs that had the message-id feature, both rn and my MUA displayed the messages in threads, whenever I chose that option, It was kinda strange, though, when news items had expired but dependant posts were still unread... Similar strangeness occurred with both news and mail when I got a reply before I got the original being replied to... That's why threaded reading was still an option.

---
--Bill. NAL: question the answers, especially mine.

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AOL patents displaying threaded email messages ..

Authored by: mdhmiller on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 03:40 AM EDT

Threaded email for everyone was widely available for free as Hypermail long ago
...
See message Date: 8 Aug 1994 12:32:29
at http://www.w3.org/Tools/Hypermail.html

Original author was Tom Gruber.
Project is still active today as HyperMail and PiperMail
See http://tomgruber.org/technology/hypermail.htm

Back in the day ... I actually used this to publish some MBOX mail archives as
threaded html.

... Mark M.

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