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Re: Digests
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:39:26 GMT
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:30:51 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

[Really excellent write-up snipped]

The > characters in the Subject field reflect an article's depth in its
thread tree.  The more >'s, the deeper in the tree the article resides.
Absence of a > implies that the article is the first in a new thread.

Are the >'s a simple count of depth, or are they (more like)
logarithmic?  Cool feature, either way.

Steve



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