on Fri, 24 May 2002 21:10:29 GMT, Drieux wrote:
> so, on average, half the user's are not nice enough to
> even offer up a 'why thank you'.....
I wouldn't say that. A lot of thank you's are sent by private
communication (at least that's my experience). Unfortunately, many times
these thank you's are accompanied by a
"BTW, can I also ask you how to do this-or-that?"
which prevents other list members to contribute, or to learn from the
solution, unless one copies the reply back to the list, which I often
don't, because my preferred interface to this list is through nntp.
> Have you thought about doing the requisite semantical
> evaluation of 'threads' as they drift? As well as the
> RegEx to track things such as the classic
>
> <newHeading> was RE: <oldSubject>
>
> as was the 'traditional mainstream family values based model'
> of early usenet news groups....
I hope your not implying that usenet is a thing of the past (because it's
not :-)
Traditionally, threads are not reconstructed by looking at the subject
beader, but at the references header. Unfortunately, since this *is*
basically a mailing list (which fortunately has a nntp interface), a lot
of these references are missing (over 20% of all replies don't have any),
so it is difficult to reconstruct the threads (which I frequently notice
in my newsreader).
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felix
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