The first time I saw "thread/threading" studied in the computer science literature was in the following article: Lewis, D.L., & Knowles, K.A. (1997). Threading electronic mail: A preliminary study. Information Processing & Management, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 209-217. You may also want to see our paper, which examines relational (social network theoretic) aspects of threading: http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour/articles/tgn.pdf Regards, --Moses M.A. Boudourides Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 265 00 Rio-Patras Greece Tel.: +30-2610-996318 Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Kris Markman wrote:

Does anyone know the origin of the term "thread/threading" as applied to grouping conversational topics in CMC (i.e. newsgroups, email, etc.)? Thanks, Kris M. Markman, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Communication Studies The University of Texas at Austin Email: jho-kmm@mail.utexas.edu https://webspace.utexas.edu/~kris3198 _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

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