On 11/15/2011 09:12 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
bcs Wrote:
You must have miss-spoke. I assume your intended to say organised and
grouped instead of an insane interleaved view where the conversation's
natural structure is mashed flat and destroyed.
I've *never* had a conversation in real life where time branched out.
That's one of the advantage of NNTP over talking.
The closest you can come in real life is if a group splinters, and instead of
a public forum, you have a bunch of private conversations that just happen
to take place in the same room.
Yup and with news groups you can read them in whatever order you want,
consider them independently and even response (clearly and explicitly)
to a specific comment at any time after it was made.
Oh wait, that would have looked the same to you.)
Yeah. I use the email gateway for reading, and skim posts in real time
as they arrive in my inbox (which can be sorted in a variety of ways, but
I usually keep it on strict linear, oldest first.)
It's pretty rare that I look at the in-reply-to header at all. It serves almost
no purpose.
It's pretty rare that I look at the time header at all. It serves almost
no purpose.
Most claims you can make to support a tree view being useless I can
tweak slightly to make support a tree view being the better solution.
I say we paint the bike shed grey.
