On 12/02/2003 at 20:49 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Pipermail (at least) doesn't provide back links across its refresh boundaries. On penderel, for london.pm, that's set to weekly (as that's pretty much enough for one page; last week, for example, is a 23KB page, which I'd say is fairly sane, compared to monthly, which would be nearer 100, and verging on too big), so any threads over a weekend will have a common root in the new week. This also has the side-effect that 'Previous Mail' links don't go to the start of the thread (as it's in the previous week archive).On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:18:49PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:That would depend on the nature of the mailing list, presumably (how quick a typical conversation turnaround is). On the order of weeks should work, though, otherwise you get interesting quirks of the type seen on groups.google.com, where you occasionally get threads starting in 1996, lasting for sixteen messages, then picking up again in 2001 (or whatever) -- "thread by subject" by-products.But only if there are no references headers? I sometimes reply to things after 6 months, and try to have the right "in reply to". Although I'm just awkward, and I don't think the online list archives usually pick up on what I'm up to. :-(
I can't comment on other lists and whether their 'previous in thread' links span index page divisions. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard...
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