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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:14:39 EDT
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- From: "Nick Gimbrone (WIRDI)" <NJG@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Threading items in notebook (menues)
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 21 Jul 1992 17:19:49 EDT from <ophof@SERVER.UWINDSOR.CA>
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- On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:19:49 EDT Scott Ophof said:
- >Does anyone have anything to process the index file so that sorting
- >it by "THREAD" would sequence the items by topic? Not subject or
- >date, but using the "In-Reply-To:" data.
- >Maybe even a display like in the Netnews newsreader called "trn"?
- >(probably on a separate screen?)
- >Something like the following diagram to indicate how the items are
- >linked with respect to offshoots, derivatives, etc.?
- > (.)-(p)-(.)-(.) (.) An item
- > | | (H) "Here" (reading that item
- > | (H)-(.)-(.) (p) Item previously read
- > |
- > (.)-(.) Top-left = start-of-thread
- I like the idea... a lot... I tend to use sorts by date and selection
- by subject for this... but it is far from perfect. I'm not sure how
- well this would work "in the real world", but it might be worth a shot...
- Go for it Scott, and let us know how it works! ;-) -njg
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