[Coco] 10 years of Delphi posts (1985-1995)

[Lothan]

I was looking over the Delphi messages and noticed how fragmented the 
threads are as well. I doubt what you're suggesting would be much help 
because the message referenced in the Re: tags don't' exist. In other words, 
look at the Iron Forest messages and you'll see 52635 re: 52438 in one 
thread and 52594 re: 52578 with a reply 52813 re: 52594. The problem here is 
that (as far I can tell), neither 52438 nor 52578 exist in the archive 
(presumably because they were deleted from Delphi before the messages were 
captured).

I wonder if it might be better to thread the messages by subject? That would 
probably be the easiest thing to do given the number of message missing from 
the archive. Another possibility might be to try to rebuild the tree by 
creating dummy placeholders for the missing messages, but that would 
probably require some amount of fuzzy matching since I'm sure some threads 
have intermediate linking messages missing as well. In other words, 
A->deleted->C is likely fairly trivial to relink into a coherent thread, but 
A->deleted->deleted->D is a little trickier.

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From: "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 1:53 AM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] 10 years of Delphi posts (1985-1995)

> Wow, that was a blast from the past, looking at some of my old messages 
> from
> 1988, none of which I had any recollection of.
>
> The only improvement I could suggest is this:  There presently seems to be
> no way to do the equivalent of Delphi's BACK command to see the previous
> message in the thread, the one that the message you're look at was a reply
> to.  Or, is there some way of doing this that I neglected to try?  I
> understand that some of such messages are missing, but it would be nice to
> be able to view ones that aren't.  Maybe allow the user to click on the
> message number after the "Re: Msg" in the subject line to do this if the
> previous message exists, otherwise don't highlight the message number?
>
> Great job!
>
> Art