Re: [selfforum-questions] archiving / voting: consistent archive content

[Michael S. <mic...@gm...>]

hi Frank,



> > 1. Should hyperlinks between postings be converted into something
> >    usable when archiving these postings?
> > 2. Should postings referenced by other postings inherit their flag
> >    'to be archived' from the referencing posting?
> > 3. How could 2. be implemented, remembering that the archiving
> >    process
> >    may refer only to some of the threads? Links between threads may
> >    be set in any direction regarding to thread history (but not to
> >    posting history - an older posting cannot link to a newer one).
> 
> These are interesting questions. I don't consider it very useful, to
> fully archive all linked postings. The archiver has no chance to
> guess, why an author could have linked to another message. There
> could be many other reasons for these links.

True, but they at least require some advanced knowledge of using the
forum features, thus I would be optimistic they could be used mainly
by users whoh know what they do.
Maybe "dependent archiving" might be available as some configuration
parameter of the forum software

> What do you think about another tag to implement this feature?
> Something like [reference:<msgid>] or [ref:<msgid>].

This might indeed help to handle problem no. 2, but would make most
sense if problem no. 3 was solved, too.
Don't forget that the archiving criteria might even change between the
two archiving events being applied to these two threads.

bye
     Michael