[thesite] Tip Harvester question (was: [***] Formatting tips )

McCreath_David McCreath_David at xmail.asd.k12.ak.us
Fri Mar 30 13:42:32 CST 2001


Hi, Seth -- 

I just want to make sure I understand this. 

>The drawback to this approach is that if someone replies and 
>their email software doesn't support "quoting", the tip would 
>go in twice.

Okay, so my message looked like this:

------------------------
> From: Daniel J. Cody
>
> <tip type="Searching the list archives">
> [ ... yadda yadda yadda ... ]
> </tip>

<tip type="Searching the list archives, part 2">
[ ... yadda yadda yadda ... ]
</tip>

David
------------------------

My client (Outlook Exchange client, set to send text-only) quotes replies
with a ">" on every line, which is what it did to Dan's <tip>. So are you
saying that the quoting ">"s on every line would have prevented his tip from
being snagged twice? 

What about somebody like .jeff who quotes all his messages thusly?

:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:<tip type="Searching the list archives">
:[ ... yadda yadda yadda ... ]
:</tip>
:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<tip type="Searching the list archives, part 2">
[ ... yadda yadda yadda ... ]
</tip>


>I have put some thought into this, but have not been able to 
>come up with a real solution other than a review process, or 
>doing exact comparisons of every tip (which seems like it would 
>inhibit performance, and I'm not sure if you can even compare 
>two whole text fields..)

It doesn't seem like it happens often enough to really worry about it a lot,
but maybe some monthly maintenance routine? Or maybe even a way for
volunteers to delete duplicates if they spot them... hmmm...

Thanks
David




More information about the thesite mailing list