Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 08:06:15 06/29/98
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On June 29, 1998 at 01:52:40, Will Singleton wrote: >Tim, > >On a related subject... > >What is the rationale for having the most recent reply to a message appear above >earlier replies? Wouldn't it be more natural to show the first reply first, the >second second, etc? There is none. :) Actually, I started this project from a freeware message board script and heavily modified it, but this is one of the things I left the same. I guess the idea is to have more recent stuff closer to the top, although this does not hold true in a thread. It would not be so easy to change this behavior. Right now, the program simply inserts each reply directly under the message being replied to. It would be a lot harder to try to find the corect place to insert the reply if it had to be under all previous replies, and all threads connected to those replies, etc.
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