TDPL a bad idea?

[Walter Bright]

Roman Ivanov wrote:
> In a tree-like forum, a discussion can be extended at any point, and the
> bigger the thread grows, the more points there are. It's more difficult
> to keep track of, and it's /much/ more difficult to see the "current"
> state of an entire discussion that you haven't read from the start. You
> can't just read the last 10-20 messages, because they could be from
> entirely different, unrelated branches. Linear threads insure that users
> are on the same page of a topic, both figuratively and literally.


With a competent newsreader, this is no trouble at all. Read message 
subjects are greyed, so there's no problem seeing the current state. 
With the linear ones, I often have trouble figuring out what people are 
replying to.