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Thread oopies (was: Re: Lugnet for beginners)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:20:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Shiri Dori writes:
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> But, Todd, why are all your posts creating new threads? This is off-topic yet
> it makes it hard to follow the thread... a bug maybe?
d'Oh--Oops! Thanks for pointing this out!
"Bad programmer, bad programmer!" A couple weeks ago I wrote a special
newsreader that shows me live[1] streaming news. If I wanted to reply to
a message, I'd hit 'w' and it would fork off a copy of Netscape Navigator
to display the article as a web page, which I would then click the "Reply"
icon in. But that's too cumbersome sometimes, so yesterday or the day before,
I added an integrated reply function. Now when I hit 'f' (for "follow-up",
just like the trn command), it forks off a copy of my text editor in a new
terminal window.
Before launching my text editor, I tell it to create a tempfile with the new
article and its default headers. But I forgot to tell it to construct the
'References:' header, which is necessary for proper message threading. Oops!
:*}
--Todd
[1] Well, not quite live -- about a 1-minute latency.
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| (...) Glad ta hear that. (Frank, glad I can count you in, BTW). But, Todd, why are all your posts creating new threads? This is off-topic yet it makes it hard to follow the thread... a bug maybe? -Shiri (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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