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List:       mhonarc
Subject:    Re: ?s about otherindexes and message page markup
From:       Al Gilman <asgilman () access ! digex ! net>
Date:       1997-09-19 0:14:31
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to follow up on what Earl Hood said:

> > > You can't.  Messages are written/edited before any other index sorting
> > > is done.  To support what you want, mhonarc would have to create sort
> > > lists for all possible sort criteria (an expensive operation), and also
> > > provide a bunch of resource variables to access them.
> ...
> 
> > If the anchor names in the indices were built by rule from the message
> > ID, you don't have to have sorted the index lists to write the URLs
> > that index into their HTML representation.  You do have to ensure that
> > every message has an ID, but I think that can be arranged.
> 
> I do not see how this solves the problem.  Message Ids give absolutely
> no indication of listing order, just possible location.  It provides no
> help in determine what is next, or previous, in date, subject, author,
> [snip]
> navigational links provided at the bottom and top of each page).  I
> do agree that using message ids as indentifiers is better off, in
> general, but they provide no assistance to this problem.
> 
 
You are, of course, absolutely right.  I had conveniently reduced
the problem in my mind to "how do I point at my entry in the
Author index."  But for that you don't need to change from 
serial message numbers as received.  Sigh.  Sorry.

-- Al

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