On 1/12/07, iain duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally I like the PIC lists tag in subject line method because it > allows one to better scan an inbox visually and sort by subject. > So a subject header would look like > Re: [TurboGears][MAINT] Tagging list posts (Was: I surrender (second > edition)) >
The problem you have there is adding tags after something has been posted. What if a new user doesn't realise that adding tags in the subject line is the 'de facto' standard? That post is forever untagged because changing the subject line effectively starts a new post. I really don't think that there's an all around solution to this due to the different formats of the data. Some people read it via mail and some via the web and we're always going to have that mismatch of data. My idea (and it's very rough) would be to have an intermediary app that either subscribes to the list itself or uses the new google groups feeds to monitor the group. We could build our own term extraction engine (a very grandiose name for something fairly simple - although I will throw in the idea of using a soundex lib to help get around spelling mistakes) to pull out known tokens from each message (i.e. turbogears, cherrypy, identity, genshi, kid, etc, etc) and have the application tag each message/thread automatically. This could then be an ideal front end to help users search for exactly what they're looking for on the list. Users who may not know all the best terms to search by can filter messages using the terms we've constructed. It can also have a password protected front end for list monitors to create summaries easily - it will have all the messages since the last summary, and could be ordered by activity, weighted by who has replied (i.e. possibly give TG developers and people who are known to answer questions concisely, correctly and frequently) and, of course, filter by tags. As you can see, I've obviously got quite excited about the prospect of this project, however, I have no time to implement it at the moment :( Lee -- Lee McFadden blog: http://www.splee.co.uk work: http://fireflisystems.com skype: fireflisystems --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
