Re: Funny scoring.

Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:34:19 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Pappu Bonk Boink Blink Beasley Boink Blink wrote:

The names you use in your "e-mail address" field are disturbing... You
know that? <grin>

> Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:56:14 +0200,
> yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no (Yngvar Folling) wrote:
> >That reminds me, I think there could be a simple way to search for the
> >article whose Message-ID matches the last ID on the References field (to
> >search for the message to which this is a followup), other messages with
>
> A nice thred tree, like what Richard was talking about, would visualise
> this quite nicely i'd think.

That would be a flexible and generalized way to present it. But I
remember OLX having a function which essentially took you to the parent
message (if it existed) with a keystroke. "Z", I think. Very useful.
If a newsreader takes the time to build a thread tree, I would think a
"goto parent" function would then be easy to implement.

On another (semi-related?) note, since it relates to message IDs -- I
wonder how easy it would be for Yarn to keep track of all of the Message
ID's that it generates in one's postings (say for a defined number of days
from the posting date) so it could keep track of all messages referencing
those specific message IDs?

That way, Yarn could keep track of threads containing a message ID of
yours, either by color-coding, or by scoring. Might be useful for
finding follow-ups to your postings in a busy newsgroup.

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