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In article <23kuXB1w165w@quest.UUCP> srhqla!quest!kdq writes:
>    I have written a news threader (like that for trn) that creates a
>thread file in the specified directories.  I've beaten on it pretty
>heavily and it appears to be relatively immune to problems.  I'm
>looking for someone who has a reasonable unthreaded news reader (I
>haven't seen any threaded ones) that's interested in making use of my
>threader.
>
>    The executable and documentation is available to anyone; the
>source is available to the authors of newsreaders.  The output is a
>plain text file - I can provide routines to recreate the thread
>structure in memory, or even to do all the thread manipulation and
>call your browser when the appropriate file has already been opened.
>
>    The threader is straightforward to use.  You specify one or more
>directories, specify whether directory recursion is to be used (can
>be turned on and off), and specify whether it should report what it's
>doing (verbose mode).  It can also be set to purge old threads (a
>thread with no current articles).
>
>    If you're interested, please contact me via email (make sure the
>reply-to hasn't been munged (see the .sig).  This site receives
>alt.bbs.waffle, but not comp.bbs.waffle (sigh - it's an upstream
>problem).

I hate to rain on the parade, but there is an emerging standard in the
Usenet world for threading called NOV (News OverView).  If you want to
provide code that makes any sense for people doing NNTP-capable
newsreaders, you had better go look at the NOV stuff, as should anyone
who's doing a threaded newsreader.  Look in news.software.nntp, among
other places, for discussion about it.

  --jh


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