Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!jlilien From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Notesfile vs. USENET (flame) Message-ID: <848@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 15:38:00 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.848 Posted: Fri Feb 17 15:38:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 03:06:46 EST References: <884@druxt.UUCP> <17800001@hp-dcd.UUCP> <255@hou3c.UUCP> <1206@pur-phy.UUCP> Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 17 It seems to me that this whole business of Orphaned Responses from notes could be fixed (based only on having used notes a long time ago and reading the long discussions on this over the passed few years) by changing the data structures slightly. My understanding is that currently notes creates an "empty template" for the base note if a response arrives before the original article. The Orphaned Response is put in because the subject line is not stored with the replies. Yet it is clear to me that there is other information associated with the response, such as who sent the response. Clearly, an extra field could be added to the response article's data structure to hold the subject, while still maintaining a pointer to the base note for discussion groupings. Over the net traffic could then get its subject directly instead of indirectly through the base note structure. This seems so easy an obvious, that I must be overlooking something. Please fill me in. Joel