newsgroup web viewer

bcs bcs at example.com
Tue Nov 15 20:47:11 PST 2011


On 11/15/2011 07:18 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Trass3r Wrote:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php is nicer and works fine
>> for me the few times I need a web viewer.
>
> Oh, I keep forgetting this one exists!
>
> Can we get this linked from the main newsgroups page at least?
>
>> A threaded view is a must have :)
>
> Change the ordering to ByParent in the url, though I haven't adjusted the stylesheet
> to include proper spacing for that.

Either that's not working, it's not what I want or the stylesheet thing 
is getting in the way.

>
> It puzzles me how people actually like that view though! I hate threaded
> views with a passion.

Do you actually enjoy having to guess what something is in reply to? Or 
how about the fun you can have trying to locate replies to a given post? 
Or what about when one branch of a thread goes off on a interesting 
tangent and another dives down a rabbit hole you couldn't care less about?

Unless you plan on reading *everything* (and when things get 
interesting, that is just flat impossible, even if you don't have a 
job), the most important information is virtually invisible in anything 
but a threaded view.


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