New feature: Mail-This-Story

[Dave Winer]

It's that way because it was coded that way. ;->

We need to decide if we're going to change the docs or the software.

Sorry for the confusion.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Berlinger" <daniel@circumtech.com>
To: "Manila-Newbies" <Manila-Newbies@userland.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: New feature: Mail-This-Story


> On my server (http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/) the new macro works for
stories, not for discussion group messages.
>
> If the message has been made a story, the macro returns the link
regardless of view:
>
> http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$563
>
> and
>
> http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/discuss/msgReader$563?mode=day
>
>  -- both show the link.
>
> But if you remove a message from the story list, the link no longer shows
up in the discussion group message...
>
> To recap, if a message is just a DG message and not a "story" as well, the
macro doesn't provide the link.
>
> Any thoughts as to why this might be?
>
> Thanks,
>
> d.
>