Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 10:48:34 PM, you wrote: JD> Okay, let's try this again. Michael asked a question and we'd really like JD> your feedback here:
Ok, my .02 follows. >>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? Each thread regardless of subject should be considered it's own entity. Thinking about how to implement in a mailing list mirror started to give me a headache though...it would necessitate some kind of tracking id in the message itself or maybe a header I would think. Maybe it's too much trouble for too little gain? It would be an interesting problem to tackle though. The Ace's Hardware forum shows the concept, although their implementation would not work for the volume of postings on the cf lists. http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=65049997#TEXT Users can change topic, but still maintain threading. Perhaps some kind of "filter by this subject" functionality when viewing messages would allow the best of both worlds? Overall though this really isn't much of an issue on cf-talk as it is in cf-community, where topics change a lot, but if you want to follow the thread you have to start at the original topic. >>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? Name and Date definitely, email addresses would make hof a lovely email harvester target though. The subject displayed should be the actual subject of the posting. Some useless but fun stat like total number of posts by user would be groovy. -- jon ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
