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Subject: Re: Why not hide lengthy threads behind an HTML link?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 00:46:02 12/15/98

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On December 14, 1998 at 21:35:32, Peter Kappler wrote:

>My main interest is being able to *find* other posts.  It's getting difficult,
>because if you have the misfortune of posting shortly before a gigantic CM6000
>thread starts, your post will be "off the screen" in 1-2 hours.
>
>Most Usenet news readers solve this problem by "hiding" replies to a thread
>underneath the thread title.  Free Agent is a good example.  It would be easy to
>implement the same solution in HTML.  The title of the thread could be a link to
>a screen which shows all replies to the original post.
>
>I like this solution even more than my earlier suggestion of creating subgroups.
>
>Any supporters?

No, because in a few days the CM6k-thread will decrease. And then? Delete the
HTML-link or whatever? No. This is not senseful to create a sub-group or so only
because there are some mails to one thread than to another.



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