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Re: read/not read quirk on web interface?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:43:12 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpien@ctp.com> writes:
> Am I seeing things, or is this behaviour what's happening?
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> Suppose I have read some, but not all of the messages in a group. Suppose
> further that some of those messages are posted to multiple groups, and that
> some of them I read while in another group.
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> Now consider the group message list, and the thread/tree view while in a
> message.
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> I believe the following to be true:
> A message I never read at all shows blue (unread) in both views
> A message I read while in this group shows purple (read) in both views
> A message I read in another group but not here shows blue in the list but
> purple in the tree view.
This is correct.
The group listing ignores cross-posting x-refs. So if something is
crossposted, it'll show up as two different articles in the web interface.
But the thread view -is- smart enough to see cross-posting and only lists
the primary article in a set of cross-posted articles.
The group listing -could- (and arguably should) be made to give a link to
the main article when something is crossposted. That is, if something is
crossposted to
Newsgroups: lugnet.foo,lugnet.bar
and shows up as
lugnet.foo:73
lugnet.bar:129
then when browing the lugnet.bar group, instead of linking to
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.bar:129
it really ought to link to
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.foo:73
To do this, the group listing will have to fetch the Xref: header from the
article. Luckily, it will only have to do this if it's a crossposted
article, and that value (boolean) is readily obtainable from the '.overview'
file, which is already being slurped by that code.
--Todd
> Therefore, the tree view is more useful if what I care about is which messages
> I have actually read.
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> This behaviour, if true, is an artifact of the web, not an error in coding. Or,
> I could be seeing things.
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> Note carefully that there is no request for action attached to this post. :-)
>
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| (...) Pardon my news ignorance, but that means that the article only exists once, right? Do articles exist independently of groups, and just have tagging associated that puts them into a group at a particular number, or do they live in one group (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Am I seeing things, or is this behaviour what's happening? Suppose I have read some, but not all of the messages in a group. Suppose further that some of those messages are posted to multiple groups, and that some of them I read while in another (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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