Salon Table Talk

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Salon Table Talk
URL http://tabletalk.salon.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Closing
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

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Site structure

Discussions

A discussion has a starting post (which appears on each page) and a list of messages. A discussion has a discussion id, a sequence of letters and digits. The messages are paginated: 50 messages per page. The index of the next message is given in the URL, starting at index 0 for the first message.

Simple URLs to get the messages of a discussion:

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.[DISCUSSION ID]/[MSG INDEX]

E.g.
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/0
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/50
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/100
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/...

These URLs do work, but the URLs that are linked from the tabletalk pages look slightly different.

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@@.eea08df/0
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@@.eea08df/1160

The last page of the discussion can be recognized by grepping for the LAST link. If this link is not on the page, you have found the end of the discussion.