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

[Lothan]

If you want a second set of eyes or help on the messages, feel free to send 
me the Delphi message files and I can try to relink the messages back into 
coherent threads.

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From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 3:35 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] 10 years of Delphi posts (1985-1995)

> At 02:12 AM 10/3/2009, you wrote:
>>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.
>
> I might try using a backwards search for the parent message if the parent 
> ID doesn't actually exist. This is where I can just filter the subject 
> line, removing the (Re: #####) part and looking for the most recent same 
> subject, and Assuming it's the parent.  If no equal subject is found over, 
> say, a week's time, then the message would become a New Post.
>
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