Subj : Offline Mail Reader To : Jon Watson From : mark lewis Date : Sat Oct 09 2004 02:42 pm JW> mark lewis wrote to Jon Watson: ml>> JW> and use a 3GL to code a console app? ml>> 3GL? good grief! what's wrong with 1GL or 2GL stuffs? ml>> and i see things now about 4GL and even 5GL JW> Purist... :) OB-) JW> I can immediately see this conversation isn't going JW> anywhere....I'll bow out now to save the electrons :) 'k... 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/ ;) JW> I use Irex to gate from Echo <-> Email and then PHP scripts to JW> manually rip and write to the mail spools and, of course, MySQL JW> to insert into the forums. I'm running a SMF forum package (the JW> old YABBSE software). interesting... JW> Umm...don't understand why you commented about html/http JW> only.....what are you getting at? oops... that should have only been http... the point is that the WWW (aka web) only makes use of the http protocol... anything else is not the web but simply a use of the internet ;) JW> The duplication thing took me a few days to figure out) how JW> to avoid it, that is. I just finished converting the ugly JW> BBCode quote style to a nice FTN style that won't make JW> people puke when they read it and I think the last thing on JW> my list is threading. sounds like a lot of work... especially considering having to learn someone else's coding methods and logic flow and then having to rip it apart to adjust to perform differently... yeah, i've done it many times in the past and i still hate it... i'd rather code it clean from the ground up... if for no other reason than to know that the bugs are mine and i'm the one to blame and fix them ;) JW> FTNs aren't threaded, I know, but most (mine is no exception) JW> web forum software is. hunh? all my stuff works on threads... i use JAM bases and they are threaded on the MSGID/REPLY lines... definitely not on the subject line <> my stuff also purges on the date of /arrival/ and not the date in the message header ;) JW> Problem is that in fixing the ugly BBCode quote problem JW> mentioned above - the original SMF message ID is gone - JW> thus the child/parent link used for threading is also JW> gone. can't carry the MSGID/REPLY control lines over via X- header lines and use them? should be able to... JW> I could just put matching subjects together and except for JW> the test echoes that would probably work....dunno yet - JW> have to think more about it. that would work... that's how things were done for many years before true threading came around ;) )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .