Subj : Join Networks
To   : acn
From : Ogg
Date : Thu Sep 08 2022 18:09:00

Hello acn!

** On Tuesday 06.09.22 - 20:30, acn wrote to Ogg:

 O>>  References of "Right. So, now all Sharon needs to do is"
 a> [OpenXP thread tree]
 O>> No problem.

 a> If I see the thread view correctly, it really shows one
 a> problem: the subject of the thread changes with (almost)
 a> every message. Why is that happening?

First, anyone in Fidonet can change a subject, or have none all  
too for that matter.  ;)

But from the Tg side, the challenge is to provide a reasonable  
Subject to fit the Fidonet expectation of having one (or not),  
when the Tg environment operates without needing a Subject.

But Stas made a very clever innovation and simply uses the  
first 40 chars of the body of the message as the Subject.  
Looking at it from the Fidoside, it serves to be a kind of  
message preview.  I think it's good and better than absolutely  
nothing, or just three dots which was the result of earlier  
implementations.

Further along into development the feature to actually include  
a Subject was added.

Now, IF a TgBBS user fails to enter a Subject, the system will  
take the 1st 40 chars of the message.  Otherwise, the TgBBS  
user can enter one if they want.

What particularly one (and only one) user is doing in the  
LITRPG echo is failing to enter a Subject *and* not using the  
typical R)eply feature to some messages.  :(

However it's fairly straight forward to follow the thread since  
most messages are FEW, and chronological and in sequence, and  
MSGID and REPLYIDs are utilized.

Further discussion about all this is best in the dedicated Fido  
FIDONET.TELEGRAM echo.

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