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Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Nov 18 22:04:22 PST 2011
On 11/17/2011 9:02 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>> 1. compact, threaded view
>
> You have to acknowledge that a lot of people don't see this as
> newsgroups getting it right.
>
> I'm completely opposed to it. (recursive*) Threaded views aren't just suboptimal.
> They are a *bad* thing. It was progress to ditch that misfeature, and it pains
> me that so many people want it anyway.
I am often involved simultaneously in dozens of threaded conversations. How you
can possibly deal with that using a flat, chronological sort on all the messages
is beyond my comprehension.
Even Digg gave up on that and went to a threaded view.
I also use a threaded view of my email messages.
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