>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. Already done. The threading is done on two levels. The first is the messageid/reference in any email. If this does not exist then the subject is used as the criteria. All I have to do is throw a switch and ALL email messages from CF-Talk will run directly into the new archive with full threading. Once its perfect (needs the user login) then I can move things so that posting from the archives will work as well.
>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
