It would appear that on Aug 9, Carlos E. R. did say:
> On 2015-08-09 19:57, JtWdyP wrote:
> > So until somebody from the webside replies to an nntp side thread, I guess
> > we’d have to open the relevant forum in the browser. and paste the subject
> > into the search forum web tool.
>
> Yes. But a thread started on the nntp side will not have tags anyway, so
> it doesn’t make sense to try find them on the web side. On the other
> hand, any thread started on the web side will have them, and will have a
> link at least on the initial post of the thread.
Though I’ve seen threads I started on the nntp side, that had a reply from
the web side, which reply had the links at the bottom. So if you spot a
reply from a user you know uses the web forum, it would at least quickly
index the right thread. Which is all I’da been doing with the web search
tool anyway.
> > And that’s more pointy clicky bull dodo, than my keyboard oriented fingers
> > want to do, just to rule out the relevance of those threads that used to
> > belong in the separate tumbleweeds forum… <sigh>
>
> I wonder if we could concoct a script to use lynx or curl or whatever
> and parse the result to just print the tags in the CLI for us. :-?
Don’t know about curl, but neither lynx nor linkx text mode browsers seem
able to login to the forum, which would put a captcha in the way of any
forum search. But maybe is possible with external search. Though I’m
thinking this would not be worth the effort unless your X was broken,
And you were trying to find a fix for it. ;-7
> > By the way, I’m curious what an nttp side ‘Tumbleweeds’ user is supposed to
> > due, to include the ‘mandatory’ tags when starting a new thread?
Whoopsi Obviously I meant “do”… Never trust a spell checker 
>
> We can’t.
>
> We’ll just have to include the information in the text. Not just for
> tumbleweed, but for anything.
Which starts to make the OP’s suggestion sound relevant:
http://oi59.tinypic.com/25u00mw.jpg
Since the nntp user can’t select one of these tags. It would make sense to
embed them in the text of the subject line. Until the forum admins have the
time to develop an official method.
And since the official prefix for Tumbleweed is in all caps, it would make
sense to capitalize the un-official embedded substitute tag. So if I was
going to start a thread to ask about using Tumbleweed with non-free Nvidia
driver, I might render the Subject: line as:
[TUMBLEWEED] Can I run Tumbleweed without trashing Nvidia driver?
Which would look as good to a web user because there wouldn’t be a real
forum tag in front of the subject…
Though if a web user had started that thread, we nntp users won’t see the
tag until the forum admins have the time to solve the problem. And I can’t
see me bothering to manually insert it in a reply. And in fact I think that
would be anti-social behavior. As the resulting view in the web interface’s
thread index would look something like:
TUMBLEWEED [TUMBLEWEED] Can I run Tumbleweed without trashing Nvidia driver?
And that’s just a little too much “Tumbling” for me.
So I think I’ll just wait for the eventual official solution. They know the
problem. They’ve heard the ideas. But unless you can talk the Doctor into
lending them his TARDIS, we really do need to wait for them to find the
time. And as much as I’m sure they really do want to. I’m also sure they
have a lot of other issues taking up what time they do have. So I for one
will try to be patient.
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JtWdyP
