mark lewis wrote to Jon Watson:

ml>  JW> and use a 3GL to code a console app?
ml> 
ml> 3GL? good grief! what's wrong with 1GL or 2GL stuffs? and i see things 
now
ml> about 4GL and even 5GL 

Purist...  :)

I can immediately see this conversation isn't going anywhere....I'll bow out
now to save the electrons :)

ml> i might drop by and check it out... what method have you employed in 
ml> getting them available via a browser?? remember, the WEB is html/http 
ml> stuff /only/ ;)

I use Irex to gate from Echo  Email and then PHP scripts to manually rip 
and
 write to the mail spools and, of course, MySQL to insert into the forums. 
I'm
running a SMF forum package (the old YABBSE software).

Umm...don't understand why you commented about html/http only.....what are 
you
getting at?

The duplication thing took me a few days to figure out) how to avoid it, that
is. I just finished converting the ugly BBCode quote style to a nice FTN 
style
that won't make people puke when they read it and I think the last thing on 
my
list is threading.

FTNs aren't threaded, I know, but most (mine is no exception) web forum
software is. Problem is that in fixing the ugly BBCode quote problem 
mentioned
above - the original SMF message ID is gone - thus the child/parent link used
for threading is also gone. I could just put matching subjects together and
except for the test echoes that would probably work....dunno yet - have to
think more about it.

Ciao!

Jon
                                                            
   

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