<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Monospace'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> On Monday, January 30, 2012 02:33:03 PM Michael Allan wrote: > Hi Conseo, > > This might be simpler than I expected, because I think we can drop the > complexity of the referrer header for archive discovery. The use > cases below center on this mockup of the theatre toolbar and > difference bridge: (see callout notes 1 and 2, here) > http://zelea.com/project/votorola/a/xf/_/TheatreToolbar/diff-1.xht > > Here's the use case for ARCHIVE DISCOVERY: > > 1. User U opens discussions on a new issue. She and her voters > start posting messages with embedded difference URLs to a mailing > list. > > 2. V notices that the messages are not showing up on the talk track > of the difference bridge. He says so. > > 3. U says, "That's because I forgot to add the URL of this list's > web archive to my position page." > > So she adds it. > > Here's the use case for MESSAGE DISCOVERY: > > 1. V posts a new message to the mailing list. It contains an > embedded URL for a difference between him and W. > > 2. Lurker L is reading his mail and sees V's new message. > > 3. L follows the URL from his mail client. > > He is taken to the difference bridge. He looks at the talk track > and scratches his chin. A new post appears. It is auto-selected > and a summary appears in the caption at the top of the window. > > He reads the summary. It's the same message he was reading in > his mail client 5 seconds ago. > > So basically the harvester wakes up whenever a fresh difference is > viewed in the bridge. It goes looking for the post on the web. It > looks in the archives listed in the position pages of the common > candidate (U in this case), if any, and the individual users (V, W) > until it finds a match. Then it feeds the post to clients like the > talk track. "Whenever a fresh difference", hmm the first time it is viewed is by the writer of the communications post, which is searched. It does not exist yet, if I understand your concept correctly. We would have to use something like the first not-signed in view of the difference. But this is borked as well. Could you clarify? I have to think about it as well. I feel a little bit sick atm. which is just right for exams :-D, so don't worry if it takes some time for me to reply, I will do so. conseo </body></html>