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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