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Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Thu Jan 7 02:58:06 GMT 2021
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CĂ´me Chilliet <come at chilliet.eu> writes:
I like the idea of replying to a specific message of the thread, as we do on
mailing list.
Maybe I should add the requirement that the post link to the board thread as
well as the post it’s responding to. This would ease updating because you know
exactly in which thread a message goes without searching in the thread.
But I liked the simplicity of just linking to what you are anwsering.
If you're getting into threading, and reconstructing a thread fromback-references that may be incomplete, you should definitely read this:
https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
It describes how threading was implemented for both mail and USENET inNetscape Navigator. Besides providing an algorithm, JWZ also shows thatyou don't need a database to do it (even for efficiency).
If you include one link in the head of your post format, that'sequivalent to "In-Reply-To"; if you include all the links back to theroot, that's "References". There's no equivalent to including the rootand the parent, but maybe you can see how that would affect thealgorithm.
BTW, I want to say I really like the *idea* of this way of doing aboard, for several reasons, not the least of which is that it does notinvolve bolting on any kind of POST semantics to Gemini.
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