At 10:25 AM +1000 on 1/30/00, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>Anthony: From looking at this, it seems I've become the de-facto leader.
>Hmmm...
>
>Adrian: You've certainly been mentioned in there a lot. :) After reading
>the archive though, I don't think there really is *a* leader.
I guess it depends on how you define 'leader' :)
>The
>leadership of the group changes to whoever has the best ability to lead
>at the time and on that topic. It's very good to see.
Yes, certainly is. I wonder if we even need an official leader? Probably not.
>
>>Also, it would be nice if when it gives thread names, there were links
>>to the mail archive. it would make reading the relevant threads easier.
>>The same could be done with quoted messages.
>
>Adrian: How do the links to the mail archive work? ie: If I had the name
>of the thread in variable threadName (properly URL encoded) how would I
>turn that into the URL to the thread in the archive? (Java code would be
>great, C's fine though or just english).
Ummm.... in C++ it'd look like this:
string GetMailArchiveUrl(string subject) {
static Psychic knower_of_all
return knower_of_all.Truth(subject);
}
<g>
They seem to be done by message number. You'd have to know the message
number in the order it appeared in the mail archive. Not easy to do.
If oyu wanted to automate the process, you'd have to grep the mail
archive webpages.
>Anthony: Also, there are HTML errors.
>
>Adrian: Where???
Run it through the W3C validator (<http://validator.w3.org/>). Or grab
a copy of iCab (<http://www.icab.de>). Either one will show them.
>
>>Curious as to why some of the page numbers are negative. This could
>>possibly indicate a bug, I imagine. Or maybe just a missing 'unsigned'
>>(or was the program not written in C[++]?)
>
>Adrian: The program was written in Java and the file names are created
>with Java's hashCode() function. Since there's no unsigned int in Java
>(just int) negatives are in there as well. It's not a bug, it was the
>only way I could think of to get unique filenames that are shorter than
>32 characters.
OK. It's no big deal, as long as it is not a bug. BTW: What do you do
in the event of a duplicate file name?
