The new archive or the forking? ;) At 03:13 PM 6/10/02, you wrote: >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
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