Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 16:04:47 06/19/02
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On June 19, 2002 at 18:34:45, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >On June 19, 2002 at 17:18:51, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Hi Steve, >> >>Could you please put a clickable link in the message page to go to the next >>message chronologically in the thread (which I imagine would go to the next >>thread chronologically if there are no more messages in the current thread)? >> >>This would cut the number of clicks required to read a day's messages *in half* >>and help reduce sore hands! >> >>If that's too difficult to implement, how about just a link to go to the next >>message chronologically, even if it means not following threads? >> >>Thanks! >> >> -Roy. > >Like rgcc? > >Bob D. I haven't look at that usenet group in many years, but I suppose it depends on which newsreader program you're using. I've used at least a dozen of them over the past decade and I think all the GUI ones (Mac & Windows) did indeed have such a feature. But in this case I'm asking for a link on a web page, which is different from an algorithm in an application. I would think it would be straightforward to implement, as the "Archive Index" page already has the smarts to list the messages in various orders. Just borrow a bit of that logic to get the next message in whichever sequence the webmaster chooses to implement. (But please, Mr./Ms. webmaster, pick one! Any "next message" link is better than none at all!). I also read messages on at least 3 different stock market sites, and all of them have a "next message" link you can click while reading a message, as do many, many other types of "chat" sites. I don't think it's a huge or unusual feature to hope for. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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