Subj : Re: Offline Mail Reader
To   : mark lewis
From : Jon Watson
Date : Fri Oct 08 2004 10:46 pm

mark lewis wrote to Jon Watson:

ml>  JW> and use a 3GL to code a console app?
ml> 
ml> 3GL? good grief! what's wrong with 1GL or 2GL stuffs? and i see things 
now
ml> about 4GL and even 5GL <shaking head>

Purist...  :)

I can immediately see this conversation isn't going anywhere....I'll bow out
now to save the electrons :)

ml> i might drop by and check it out... what method have you employed in 
ml> getting them available via a browser?? remember, the WEB is html/http 
ml> stuff /only/ ;)

I use Irex to gate from Echo <-> Email and then PHP scripts to manually rip 
and
 write to the mail spools and, of course, MySQL to insert into the forums. 
I'm
running a SMF forum package (the old YABBSE software).

Umm...don't understand why you commented about html/http only.....what are 
you
getting at?

The duplication thing took me a few days to figure out) how to avoid it, that
is. I just finished converting the ugly BBCode quote style to a nice FTN 
style
that won't make people puke when they read it and I think the last thing on 
my
list is threading.

FTNs aren't threaded, I know, but most (mine is no exception) web forum
software is. Problem is that in fixing the ugly BBCode quote problem 
mentioned
above - the original SMF message ID is gone - thus the child/parent link used
for threading is also gone. I could just put matching subjects together and
except for the test echoes that would probably work....dunno yet - have to
think more about it.

Ciao!

Jon
                                                            
   

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