Re: Fidonet zone 7
  By: mark lewis to Tony Langdon on Sat Mar 16 2019 11:37 am

 >
 >  On 2019 Mar 16 20:31:00, you wrote to me:
 >
 >  ml>> sounds like some software could use a threading model which makes it
 >  ml>> easy to go back through threads and even to list posts so they can
 >  ml>> easily be read and then return to where one was in their reading ;)
 >
 >  TL> Threading would be nice, but I'd need a different means of reading
 >  TL> messages to do that.  Web is the obvious one, but for me web
 >  TL> interfaces suck.
 >
 > yeah, i know the feeling... QWK just doesn't have all the needed information
 > for proper threading...

Synchronet has provided Message and Reply IDs in QWK packets since 2004 and
many other useful header fields (in newer HEADERS.DAT file) since then. Just
need offline mailer support. And the age-old standard QWK/REP msg header format
does include an 8-digit "reference message number" which can be used for proper
thread linkage in most message bases (though, oddly, QWK message numbers are
limited to 7-digits).

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