RE: subject indexes

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From: Tom von Alten (Tom_vonAlten@boi.hp.com)
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 14:58:07 CST


On Thursday, March 18, 1999 8:37 AM, Craig A Summerhill wrote:
> I find it odd the way that hypermail is treating subjects in the same
> thread during the markup of the subject.html index?
>
> Subject: this is a subject
> Subject: Re: this is a subject
>
> The 2a16-pl0 code strips the leading "Re:" from the subjects, but
> builds an unordinated list suggesting they are different. For example,
> compare the treatment on these two pages:
>
> http://www.cni.org/Hforums/amfc/1998/
> http://www.cni.org/Hforums/amfc/1998.old/
>
> Is this really what people prefer?

Nope. I'd say something's amiss. Ideally, the initial message would be
first or last (depending on the order you prefer), and any replies would be
grouped with it under the original subject.

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