Re: Working with Duplicates in Perl to generate Unique ID

In article <slrndbgfpt.rb3.tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tad McClellan <tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>kingpin2502 <esimbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> If you look at the thread, you'll
>> find
>
>
>How do you know what articles have reached _my_ newserver?
>
>How do you know how articles are displayed to me?
>
>
>> You can quite clearly see it in the thread who I have
>> replied to.
>
>
>That is just the point. We *cannot* see that quite clearly.
>
>
>--
> Tad McClellan SGML consulting
> tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Perl programming
> Fort Worth, Texas



I don't know what you guys are using for newsreaders,
but I'm using trn aka trn4, which has the wonderful
feature of drawing a wee tree (root at left, grows to
the right) of the surrounding part of the current thread, eg for
*this* thread:



| Comp.lang.perl.misc #553640 (45 + 1952 more) --(1)--(1)
| From: Tad McClellan <tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --(1)--(1)--(1)
| [1] Re: Working with Duplicates in Perl to generate Unique ID --(1)--(1)--(1)--(1)--(1)+-(1)
| Reply-To: tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |-(1)
| Date: Tue Jun 21 12:24:29 EDT 2005 |-(1)
| Lines: 22 \-(1)



(any post not yeat read is shown in square-brackets;
the digit within is for the sub-thread, eg where
someone changes the subject but continues on
with the same thread.)

Also shows where you currently are in the thread.

And you can use the arrow-keys to traverse the thing.

So, having this tree-thing, it's pretty obvious what
a post is replying to.

And here's the entire tree:

| [1] Working with Duplicates in Perl to generate Unique ID
|
| (1)+-(1)--(1)
| |-(1)--(1)--(1)
| |-(1)--(1)--(1)--(1)
| \-(1)--(1)--(1)--(1)--(1)--(1)+-(1)
| |-(1)
| |-(1)
| \-(1)
|
| End of article 553640 (of 555115) -- what next? [npq]
|

(they all show round-parens because I'm replying to the
final post in the thread.)


So, maybe you're giving that guy a needlessly-hard time,
when all he's doing is saying "thanks" (for the prior
post's solution).

Suggestion: maybe switch to trn4 -- or if not that,
then look at it's source and lift the code it
uses to draw the tree.

Man, without the tree, I'd be totally lost, reading
newsgroups!


David


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