As I'm evaluating things I've just started using the message display interface with this list and there are a couple of things that might make things easier, for me at least...
It may be a nightmare to make it work with all e-mail clients and webmail setups, I don't know, but a larger selection of Reply button options would be nice: Reply to Author or List, with or without quoting... Then I could have easily replied to your 'Improvements' thread, now that I'm a member, even though it was posted a few days before I joined the list. In addition, having the option of disabling the reply button(s) would perhaps head off some complaints. I'm a little worried how some of my members will react when random non-members send them messages after finding their posts in a web search. We're a comfortable little community, and having "strangers" contacting them could be unsettling. The other thing I would enjoy would be a control to let me expand the entire thread in the post display. It would be simple enough for threads of reasonable size, though longer ones would require some cleverness to handle page breaks in some fashion. It would make reading threads faster, with less use of the back button or need to open additional tabs/windows. Anyway, you asked for input; those are a few ideas based on my initial reaction to the interface. Be well, Mike D. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org.
