In order for me to give timely responses to posts or questions I've made, there are some things I'd like to be able to do, but don't know how -- are there ways to do these already, or are these missing features.

Basically these involve classifying and sorting, messages into 'messages that may need a response' vs. not, with messages that may need a response being defined as a response to a node I've created, sorted in the distance of the node from the response (idea being that the more distance, the more likely it is to be to someone else, though it would still be of interest as to what was said). Any nodes at the same distance could be presented by date, from oldest (one with longest unanswered or unread period), to newest.

Most basic form of this feature would be seeing any node that I've posted that has an immediate response that I haven't read (most easily checked by comparing nodes created since my last visit).

Second main feature would be email notification of 'new nodes of interest' as defined above, with it sending only 1 email per node and holding future notifications for that specific node until I've checked that node. Also, of interested would be the ability to auto-subscribe to such notifications based on node creation.

I'm used to these on other boards and would think those features would be here in some form, but haven't been able to find them.

It's frustrating as if I am not on for a few days, and come back, it's hard to even find the threads I posted in, let alone try to find new postings to those threads...

So where are these features buried, or are they not available? If not available, pray tell why not? They seem very basic to a multi-threaded discussion board.

Many thanks!

one who like diddling in perl...

In reply to I have some questions concerning perlmonks usage... by perl-diddler

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