[Coco] 10 years of Delphi posts (1985-1995)

[Roger Taylor]

At 02:12 AM 10/3/2009, you wrote:
>I was looking over the Delphi messages and noticed how fragmented 
>the threads are as well. I doubt what you're suggesting would be 
>much help because the message referenced in the Re: tags don't' 
>exist. In other words, look at the Iron Forest messages and you'll 
>see 52635 re: 52438 in one thread and 52594 re: 52578 with a reply 
>52813 re: 52594. The problem here is that (as far I can tell), 
>neither 52438 nor 52578 exist in the archive (presumably because 
>they were deleted from Delphi before the messages were captured).
>
>I wonder if it might be better to thread the messages by subject? 
>That would probably be the easiest thing to do given the number of 
>message missing from the archive. Another possibility might be to 
>try to rebuild the tree by creating dummy placeholders for the 
>missing messages, but that would probably require some amount of 
>fuzzy matching since I'm sure some threads have intermediate linking 
>messages missing as well. In other words, A->deleted->C is likely 
>fairly trivial to relink into a coherent thread, but 
>A->deleted->deleted->D is a little trickier.

I might try using a backwards search for the parent message if the 
parent ID doesn't actually exist. This is where I can just filter the 
subject line, removing the (Re: #####) part and looking for the most 
recent same subject, and Assuming it's the parent.  If no equal 
subject is found over, say, a week's time, then the message would 
become a New Post.

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~ Roger Taylor