[Coco] sorting Delphi messages

[Roger Taylor]

I'm thinking this might be a good solution:

* locate the thread starters
iterate through every Delphi message in any order, ignoring those 
marked as SORTED
  (as in a hash table output, or sorted list, doesn't matter) 
locating all Original Posts
mark each as SORTED and APPEND it to a new indexed list of messages

* insert each reply right after its parent in the new table, ignoring 
those marked as SORTED
iterate through every Delphi message in any order locating all 
messages having a parent
mark that message as SORTED, insert it after it's parent in the new 
table (the ID will have to be found in the list)

This should provide a way to make a sorted list of message IDs where 
there's a Starter msg followed by all threads/subthreads.


Once I get this formula down, I'll use it for all imported CoCo 
archives.  Sure, I could cheat and easily import each message as a 
new Post in the blog, what what a nightmare it would be to try to 
follow threads.  No way.
What's even better is if I could preserve the nested threads but this 
all depends on how the above algorithm can be improved, but I might 
need some help in this department.

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