Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: stuff and nonsense Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 07:37:33 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <519af$565d03d9$d47876e2$19871@news.ziggo.nl> <201512030046.tB30kiis003646@fido.openend.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Hw8mt6J9i4HeipmzL9vxwAFfCRsTTN9TI8YWDbQoc51w== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'indexing': 0.07; 'lines.': 0.07; 'responding': 0.07; 'creighton': 0.09; 'effect.': 0.09; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'references:': 0.09; 'example:': 0.10; 'thread': 0.10; '(at': 0.13; 'index': 0.13; 'wed,': 0.15; 'thu,': 0.15; '"re:"': 0.16; '>>on': 0.16; '>in': 0.16; '>that': 0.16; 'newsgroups': 0.16; 'operation,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'threading': 0.16; 'troll': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'laura': 0.18; 'url:home': 0.18; '>>>': 0.20; 'changes': 0.20; '2015': 0.20; 'dec': 0.23; 'thus': 0.24; 'discussion': 0.24; 'header': 0.24; '(which': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'least': 0.27; 'websites.': 0.29; "i'd": 0.31; 'post': 0.31; 'topic': 0.32; 'changing': 0.34; 'configured': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'lines': 0.36; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'expect': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'engine': 0.62; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.62; 'show': 0.62; 'engines': 0.63; 'subject': 0.70; 'internet': 0.70; 'denis': 0.84; 'email name:denismfmcmahon': 0.84; 'mcmahon,': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-219-161.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:99957 On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 01:46:44 +0100, Laura Creighton declaimed the following: >In a message of Wed, 02 Dec 2015 22:51:13 +0000, Denis McMahon writes: >>On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:32:25 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: >> >>> In what way is discussion of a tangential topic feeding the troll? Said >>> troll is not even participating in the discussion. >> >>Reposting / responding / following up with the original subject boosts >>the visibility of the subject to internet search engines because of the >>way newsgroups get gated to websites. >> >>-- >>Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com > >That is not what I was told. I was told that these days it is all >done by References: lines. Thus changing the Subject no longer has >this effect. Wrong? > Reference lines may control threading of, but when it comes to a search engine indexing operation, I'd expect it to weight the index by how often terms show up... When was the last time you searched for something by a unique reference header value -- for example: (which was the post to which you responded, I believe). Forte Agent may use reference lines to thread -- but (at least mine) is also configured to create a new thread if the subject line changes (ignoring the "re:" prefix). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/