Re: (tropic topics) Updated Newsgroup Topic Index



"Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Lawrence Akutagawa wrote:

Great idea, Alvin. But I have some difficulty
understanding this sentence - "Then you should do a
select based on the text in the thread itself because
not all postings in the thread have a topic
associated with the text in the subject heading."

Larry... an example: the subject heading "(Obama
Campaign) Inouye" is different from the subject heading
"Inouye". The difference is the topic "Obama Campaign".
To find all the postings to the thread, you would need
to select messages for the string "Inouye" rather than
the topic. How would you re-state the sentence? Glad
you take an interest in this. Hope other posters to
this ng do understand the sentence.

Alvin -
I've afraid I'm even more confused by your example, which cites two
subject
headings - "(Obama Campaign) Inouye" and "Inouye" - then goes on to
say "To
find all the postings to the thread, you would need to select
messages for
the string "Inouye" rather than the topic." Two points -

1. Your example is talking about two threads, not one - each with its
own
subject heading. So which thread is being queried? And what
postings are
you trying to locate? All references to Inouye? References to
Inouye that
include Obama? References to Inouye exclusive of Obama? References to
Inouye exclusive of anyone else?

2. But "Inouye" already appears in the subject heading - once in each
of the
two subject headings of your example. I thought that sentence which
puzzles
me asks me to "...do a select based on the text in the thread itself..."
and then goes on to say "...because not all postings in the thread
have a
topic associated with the text in the subject heading." If the text is
already in the heading itself as in your example here ("Inouye"
appears in
the two subject headings), then how does your example explain/clarify
this
puzzling sentence?

I'm afraid I can't restate that sentence because I - as you can clearly
see - am having ample difficulty understanding it in the first place. I
thought my question vis a vis your use of the possessive "it's" was a
good
example of what you meant in that sentence, but apparently it's not.

.

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