Re: Web-based mailreading enhancement

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

>   I don't think you can.  You might be able to do something heinous with
> the information in the big 'summary' view that hypermail can use.  It gives
> you the URLs, the subject, and I think the author's 'nice' name (William
> Perry instead of 'wmperry@aventail.com').

That's not overly much, but it would allow generating kinda nice
summary buffers.

>   I don't think you would want to do this with regexp's on the HTML though.
> The 'threading' view is done by using nested lists.  Relatively easy to
> handle from the parser (its even iterative! ;) though.

I should probably junk the regexp'y HTML "parsing" done now and rely
on w3 instead.  That would be much more resist{a,e}nt to changes in output
from the search engines and would be nicer all over.

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