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Subject: Re: ordering of messages

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 10:14:24 06/29/98

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On June 29, 1998 at 11:06:15, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>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.


Hmmm... ok.  I'll just re-arrange my thinking when I'm here.  Kind of like a RPN
calculator, I guess.  I'll just click on the last messages first!

Will



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