Re: Splitting archives by month: what about long-lived threads?

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On October 25, 2002 at 09:12, tomas.halvarsson@fra.se wrote:

> Threads that last from one month into the next are split. For
> example, look at the "mharc newbie problem" thread in the
> mhonarc-users web archive. The thread started on Sept. 26, and
> the Oct. 3 post does not have links to previous posts in the
> thread, because they are from a previous month.

Yep.  Technically, each month is a separate MHonArc archive.
The mhonarc.org archives (i.e. the mharc package) provides a
work-around by leveraging Namazu.  At the end of each message
body, you will see the link '[More with this subject...]'.
This executes a search for messages with the same subject for
the entire list archive so month boundaries are no longer a
problem.

It is far from perfect, but it is better than nothing.

> Is there any way of making MHonArc look in several .mhonarc.db
> -files to get threading across month boundaries work?

No.  This is a known limitation, and one of the artifacts of MHonArc's
initial Perl 4 heritage.  To do it correctly would require a rewrite
of MHonArc.  I have thought of some possible hacks for the existing
code base, but I do not know if it is worth the effort.

> multi-month-threading support would be nice to have.

Yes it would.

--ewh

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