makes me smile. eric
From: Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [admin] Please change subjects Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:51:33 -0400 When a discussion changes in content, the subject for that discussion should change as well. This makes it easier for people to read along. Yes, I know that a new subject that is a continuation of an old one will be seen by the archives as being of the same thread as the old one, but that will change. Currently, a reply to a post will be seen as a child of that post even if the subject changes. This results in long threads that fork a number of times. I'm going to change that for the archives. Basically, a thread will be a collection of parents and children who all have the same subject. As soon as the subject changes, it becomes a new thread. A marker will be kept to indicate the parent thread of the new 'family', but it will be shown as its own entity. This will be a bit confusing for those trying to trace a message back to its root when the subject has changed many times, but will be easier on someone just trying to read a single group of messages. This will make things easier on the system when it comes to generating the display of a thread. Showing 300 messages at once in a tree format takes time and power, even just to generate a cached version. If the thread was 50 messages or so, it'll be a whole lot easier. The bottom line is, please change the subject when you fork. :) (yes Ben, that's a free one. Have fun) Michael Dinowitz Publisher: Fusion Authority weekly news alert (www.fusionauthority.com/alert) Listmaster: CF-Talk, CF-Jobs, Spectra-Talk, Jrun-Talk, etc. (www.houseoffusion.com) ______________________________________________________________________ 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
