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Re: summaries on main page
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:06:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> > Is the brief algorithem broken?
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> Good question.
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> No, it's not broken. It's just not as "smart" about repairing bad line breaks
> as the "All" view-mode is.
> Although -- I'm hard-pressed at this point to say that the speed of display is
> actually an issue yet. Probably I should "fix" the Brief mode so that it
> doesn't look like it has a bug (even though it doesn't)
Typical programmer answer. :-) Clearly it's not giving good results. But it's
working as designed, so it's not a bug. It's a feature. Or a mis-feature. (1)
:-)
(puts on PM/Architect hat)
Whatever you call it, it's not meeting requirements from the end user point of
view. (2) The requirement is that usable fragments of the post be shown in the
brief view so that the reader can make the read/no-read decision about it. The
program is WAD but that's not happening.
(takes off PM/Architect hat)
1 - see:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Jargon-Lexicon-framed.html and point
to F and Feature, or
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/feature.html
2 - not that there's anything WRONG with that.
++Lar
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| (...) Ya, Agreed. At the time the "Brief" view-mode was conjured up, there were relatively few messages going by with garbled line-endings, and it didn't show up much at all. People seem to be getting a lot more lazy these days about cleaning up (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Good question. No, it's not broken. It's just not as "smart" about repairing bad line breaks as the "All" view-mode is. Note that the actual article itself is what's broken. Details: Here is the raw, actual message, as received, with its (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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