Hey Mike ,
Looking back on some of your posts on other threads,I notice that you are
one of the few persons who actually posts without automated thread copy either
above or below the new posting content.
It seems that the majority of folks have automated this behavior into email
clients (I am also guilty of the habit). It is a convenience easily forgotten
when it becomes redundant, when past thread content is not pruned to concise
items as you have done below.
My concern is about appearance for presentation in an archive which is for
current users and users who have yet to arrive in the community (so called
posterity).
If there is an application available to sourceforge projects that could
extract only the new content of each posting +signature block into a forum
style archive I would visit that site for my reading as hardhats becomes larger
and more diverse. Automating such scrubbing would not be simple algorithm
since sometimes a person does interpose commentary within the "thread copy" to
give their new content context. Most of the time thread copy in a posting is
excessively redundant (unlike your pruned context below).
Of course the usual features of search are necessary for a large archive
whether it is forum postings or accumulated email threads.
I advocate forums only for the way the archives of a forum read cleanly, and
I realize many, if not most, folks probably prefer email to receive postings.
When I started this thread, I mistakenly thought that VistaOffice was kicking
off a "forum" as its sourceforge community application, because Joseph referred
to it as a "forum" in his announcement. If there is a "forum style" for
presentation of archives I don't know how that would be extracted given the
diverse ways that people do email postings.
Rusty
Mike Lieman wrote:
On 7/30/05, *TyrusMaynard* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
What a deal ...everybody presented consistently without automated
thread
copy in replies (as I am practicing below)!
So, is your point "Forums can eliminate top-posting, and the need to
actually edit your message to be concise?
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