On Sunday 15 October 2006 23:26, Andy Oram wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >So, I devoted a couple of hours of my time to write down some prototype of > >top/bottom post converter, creatively named top2bottom.c :-) . > > I am impressed that you thought of doing this--creating a technical > solution to a social problem. Yes, perhaps it can help keep the > discussions down. Well, the general idea behind any technology is to make life easier, right? At least it should be ;-) ... > But there are still issues: the code would have to be > integrated with mail clients, and mail not fitting the bottom-posting > standard would go into archives. Of course, I am not offering the complete solution in a package. This is just a test-engine. A lot of work should be done to get it working in a mail-client etc. As for the archives, they can be filtered too, it's not a problem. Even messages from the past (now, wouldn't *that* make previous top-posting threads even more confusing :-) ). The real problem is that this mangling of people's e-mails may sometimes be confusing, in the sense of that "Yesterday Joe wrote:" type of headers that go to the wrong place in the resulting message. > Did you consider recursion in the algorithm? Why? This is just a simple "sort-the-strings" problem. Actually, there is a lot of stuff I didn't consider, to be honest. But if you have a good idea or a better algorithm, I'd be glad to hear about it. :-) Btw, that goes for the algorithm, not for the implementation. As I said, I am perfectly aware that this code can be written *much* better... :-) Thanks for the comments! ;-) Best regards, :-) Marko
