I need some design advice. The first question is about threading. Lets say that a list post starts off with one subject and then changes to another subject. The new subject is still in response to the old subject but may deal with something new. i.e. a thread starts out about MM sales practices and then changes to a talk about CF & DNS. The threading (i.e. message in response to what other message) is intact but the subject changes half way through. Should each thread be its own entity, even with subject changes or should a subject change make it a new thread? Next has to do with the display of messages in a thread. For each message, would you like to see: the posters name? the posters email? posting date? true subject (see above)? anything else? These answers will help me design the new archives to be as user friendly as possible. Thanks for your help. You can see the archives here: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/ It took me a few days to port over all the CF-Talk messages and thread them. Indexing for verity searches is next. The indexes will be based on the year, so if you want to search both this year and last, you have to select two indexes to search through. It's needed to avoid monster indexes or 250,000 messages each. Of course, if someone has a suggestion such as having all the messages in a single index and can show that it will not be a major problem, I'm all for it. Thanks again
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