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From: ger@trsvax
Newsgroups: net.news.notes
Subject: Re: search within notes
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 13:06:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 13:06:00 1986
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Nf-From: trsvax!ger    Jan  9 12:06:00 1986


>Ray: If you are still here, we need someway to search within a note
>now that digested notes are being put in the mod.* groups.  There's too
>much info and it takes too long to replot unwanted material
>at 1200 baud. Fortunately, the digests have an index.  It would really 
>help if we could jump to specific topics within the digested notes.

In keeping with the spirit of this request, it seems that a multiple level
note index/response would be beneficial as an implemented feature.  i.e.  A
hierarchy of notes/responses.  For example, a base note on subject AAA might
have 4 responses until such time as a "sub-response" branched off of response
#4.  When displaying response #4, a "sub-index page" is presented as to the
pertinent "sub-sub-responses" to #4.  If another natural response to subject 
AAA is received (#5), it is placed in current normal form on the display screen
following the sub-index page display.  Using `;' on base note #4 gets #1, #2,
#3 (normal responses to base note), #4 (sub-index page), sub-sub-response to
#4, and then #5 (a normal response to original base note) [tree-parsing].

Moderated notes could be a series of sub-sub-responses to a digest response
to a moderated base note.  This schema would allow a group, say net.stuff,
to be composed of a base note mod.stuff, as well as individual postings to
net.stuff that are unmoderated.  Readers of notes should be able to select
ONLY moderated base notes or look at everything.  This schema also includes
the capability to have a notefile such as net.sources with base notes of
net.sources.{wanted,games,mac,pc,vax,flames,etc.} so that readers can get
directly to what they want by looking at the sub-sub-response to that subject.

Ad infinitum, more discussion is available if there is any interest in such.