[Air-l] word origin question

[mboudour at upatras.gr]

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 at mail.utexas.edu
> https://webspace.utexas.edu/~kris3198
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