On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:24:17 +0300, Jon Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Ahh.. the history file.
The history file is a place where improvement can be done greatly.
What I personally would like to do is to switch the format to a SQLIte
DB, which will help with searching (increasing speed) and provide
tools to analyze it without knowing the text file formatting.
This will harden the following scenario:
1) I have held an important converstion at home;
2) Went to office;
3) And now I would like to get something from the history of that
conversation.
Of course it will be possible, but just harder. :-)
And as you said, removed users still save the history... Personally, I
think if a user is deleted, its ok to delete the history. Because if
you delete the user, then why do you care about the past messages?
_Absolutely_ disagree, for the following reasons:
1) User could be deleted by mistake.
Even despite the confirmation dialog. ;)
2) User is deleted not always because one really wishes this user
to be gone at all. There could be numbers of other reasons.
3) Anyway, it is owner's responsibility to decide what should be done
to history, not a program's.
What does everyone else think about this? I don't think an option is
even necessary. If a user is "deleted", shouldn't delete mean that
everything about the user is deleted?
Hmmm... Option in the options dialog is really not necessary indeed.
We can make it the following way:
On a right-click user context menu
Remove user --> Keep message history
Delete completely
This will give a chance of complete removal of spamming users, without
throwing them into ignore list, while still leaving history, which might
be interesting.
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