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Subject: Re: Idea to make CCC more readable (hide threads behind HTML links)

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 09:53:38 12/15/98

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On December 15, 1998 at 12:41:20, Peter Kappler wrote:

>
>There have been 175 posts to CCC in the last 24 hours!  This place is getting
>popular!  I am happy to see the club so active.
>
>But, I'm finding it difficult to follow threads that are more than a few hours
>hold because they quickly get hidden by new discussions.  Following a thread
>that is more than a day old is even worse.
>
>I posted about this yesterday, but only received one response, so I'm trying
>once more:
>
>Most Usenet news readers (Free Agent is a good example) only show the title of a
>thread on the main page.  You have to click on the subject line to see all
>replies.  I'd suggest that CCC adopt the same convention.  When a new thread is
>started, the subject line of that thread would appear on the "master" page as an
>HTML link.  Clicking that link would take you to a separate page containing all
>replies to that thread.
>
>The advantage of this is that you are less likely to miss an interesting thread
>- something that is easy to do with almost 200 posts per day.
>
>This idea works well with Usenet, it seems natural that it would work here, too.
>
>Is there any support for this idea?  Interested in feedback.
>
>--Peter



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