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From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Subject: Re: Broken thread links WWW-Interface to Mail Archives
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Dima Dorfman schrieb:
> 
> Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> writes:
> >
> >
> > Dima Dorfman schrieb:
> > >
> > > Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> writes:
> > > > When browsing the mailing list archives, it seems the "next/previous in
> > > > thread" links are broken.  Hope I sent this to the reight people, since
> > > > there is no webmaster link on the relevant pages.
> > >
> > > They seem to work fine for me.
> >
> > They don't. I've taken this one as example, the error is the very same
> > with all pages. Step-by-step procedurem, two cases:
> >
> > Next in thread does not work in Search Result windows
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 1) http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html
> >
> >    Search for "threaded mutt" in the Mail Archives.
> >
> > [http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=threaded+mutt&max=25&sort=score&index=recent&source=freebsd-questions]
> >
> > 2) Click on any result shown. I've chosen the first one, "Building
> > threaded KDE2" for example only.
> > [http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=984123+985747+/usr/local/www/db/
> > text/2001/freebsd-questions/20010107.freebsd-questions]
> >
> > 3) Click on the "Next in thread" link at the top of this page.
> >
> > => Nothing found.
> 
> It says:
> 
>            No answers found for: "20010103163922.A6411"
> 
> It seems like a very appropriate message to me.  What else do you want
> it to say?  There's no difference--logical or technical--between
> "nothing found" and "end of thread".

Technically, you're right. OTOH, it has baffled me because this message
resembles a typical error message.

A better solution would be to rephrase the message (End of thread -- no
more messages). An even better solution would be to disable the "next in
thread" link for leaf  messages.

Just my EUR .02
-Christoph Sold

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