Re: Keep Subject Headings Consistent In "Threads"

["Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>]

Tex:

Thanks for this info on how vision2020 DOES track posts in threads.  But I 
am not sure that when you alter the subject heading the thread is 
maintained, and it looked to me that a particular thread is not "connected" 
the way they are on Usenet on google.  If you post to Usenet once a thread 
is started in Usenet on Google, I am pretty sure it keeps the "thread" even 
when the subject heading is seriously altered.  I just looked for a 
comprehensive thread for my subject heading "Every Ethical System Subject To 
Relativist Problems" and I could not find a way to "collect" them under one 
thread, much less find the replies to my subject heading where the subject 
heading was altered totally, without laborious sleuthing.

But there may be a way.  I'm not that computer savvy.

I just looked a bit more at the way posts are organized on vision2020,
and it looks like "threads" are not maintained the way I was suggesting they 
could be like they are on Usenet on Google, though jumping around through 
subject and author searches can help.

Ted

>From: TEX <tex@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>
>To: Ted Moffett <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>
>CC: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Re: Keep Subject Headings Consistent In "Threads"
>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ted Moffett wrote:
>
><snip>...
> >
> > Anyways, this lack of consistency in retaining subject headings for 
>ongoing
> > discussions on vision2020 is a valid complaint, and suggests that a 
>computer
> > system that tracks posts in particular threads automatically, such as 
>the
> > Usenet posts on groups.google.com, should be considered.  This is 
>perhaps
> > too expensive and/or complicated for vision2020.
> >
><snip>...
>
>
>http://www.moscow.com/vision2020
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>http://lists.fsr.com/vision2020/current/index.html
>http://lists.fsr.com/vision2020/current/threads.html




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